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King, Phillip Parker, b. 1791
Phillip Parker King,an explorer, surveyor and sketcher, was commander of an expedition to explore the coast of New Holland. His journals, sketches and charts appeared ...
Kirk, Sarah Ann
Although there are no known surviving works of Sarah Ann Kirk, a flower painter, the artist Samuel Elyard noted in his 1939 journal that she ...
Knapp, Edward James Howse, b. 1809
A surveyor and sketcher Knapp was known as 'a crack shot, an excellent horseman, and a born bushman'. His work is held in the Mitchell ...
Kuper, Augustus Leopold, b. 1809
Kuper was a naval office who came to Australia to help establish a garrison in Port Essington (Northern Territory). Later as Captain of the Pelorus ...
L., J.
J.L. initialled the four watercolours of Norfolk Island in Robert Jones's manuscript journal. However elements of the illustrations are not historically correct for the time ...
La Trobe, Charles Joseph, b. 1801
A gifted sketcher, colonial administrator and travel writer, he always recorded his travels, and the illustrations in at least two of his four published travel ...
Lambeth,
Art teacher, advertised at Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, in September 1838 that he taught drawing in all its branches and was proposing to instruct pupils.
Langeake, John
Scene-painter, painted the scenery for South Australia's first theatrical venue, ambitiously christened the Theatre Royal, in the room above the Adelaide Tavern in May 1838. ...
Lauvergne, Barthélemy, b. 1805
Lauvergne was from a family with no previous naval tradition. He first arrived in Australia on board the 'Astrolabe' for its 1826/1829 voyage of the ...
Law, Isabella, b. 1800
Teacher, was born in Edinburgh. She came to Tasmania from Sierra Leone after her first husband died. At the end of 1835 she opened a ...
Lazenby, George, b. 1807
Cabinetmaker, master builder, lay preacher and civil servant. He was born in 1807. A man with a social conscience Lazenby was Chairman of the Swan ...
Le Breton, Louis, b. 1818
French painter, draughtsman and lithographer who served on board the Astrolabe (1839-1840), making paintings and drawings of Australian subjects.
Leech, John, b. 1817
Mid 19th century English cartoonist whose work included references to the Australian Gold rush of the 1850s.
Legallé, , b. 1819
19th Century Tasmanian Aboriginal artist of the Larmairretorhe people (Northern Tribe) whose drawing of a cockatoo is in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and ...
Legge,
Sketcher, arrived at Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, aboard the Medway on 12 August 1827, with her four sisters and two brothers. Drawings of Aborigines ...
Leigh, W. H.
Sketcher, ship's surgeon and author who visited Kangaroo Island in April 1837 on board the vessel 'South Australia'. He later visited Adelaide and Sydney before ...
Lempriere, Clara
Painter. Daughter of Thomas and Charlotte Lempriere. Miss Lempriere studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's painting school under von Guérard.
Lempriere, Thomas James, b. 1796
Self-taught portrait painter and decorative artist of Tasmania during the mid 1800s. Linus Miller said about him: 'Mr Lempriere was one of those rare specimens ...
Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre, b. 1778
Natural history artist. Leseur travelled to Australia with a French expedition at the beginning of the nineteenth century, his drawings and etchings of local flora ...
Lewis, Mortimer, b. 1796
Colonial Architect of NSW, came to Sydney in March 1830. National Portrait Gallery holds a pair of miniatures in watercolour on ivory of Mortimer and ...