After lengthy negotiations by expedition leader Alessandro Malaspina, Juan Ravenet finally joined his friend in 1791 as resident figure painter on his voyage.
Raworth could never stay still, his migrations were frequent and his residence anywhere rarely exceeded three years. He shifted between New Zealand, Australia and England ...
Dick Raymond's main Dreamings are Mala (wallaby) and Janganpa (possum). He also paints a Ngatijirri (budgerigar) story for the site of Wirli Yajarrayi where the ...
Australian-born Hewitt Henry Rayner (1902-1957), went to England in 1923 and trained under Walter Richard Sickert at London's Royal Academy Schools. He produced more than ...
Harry Raynor's portraits and Aboriginal studies of the 1920s and 1930s make an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal representations from this ...
J. T. Read's career as a professional artist is questionable because his paintings are stylistically indistinguishable from portraits by the artist Richard Read Junior.
Richard Read junior was a miniature, portrait and historical painter. Although by no means the only portrait painter in the colony, Read's career was one ...
Richard Read (senior) was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation for possession of forged notes and arrived in Sydney on the Earl Spencer on 9 October ...
William Reay, painter, art teacher, poet and coal-miner, migrated to Australia in response to the colonial success of his painting, 'Adam and Eve Expelled from ...