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Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Beechey, Richard Brydges, b. 1808
While Richard Brydes Beechey painted a scene of Lt. Stokes discovering Victoria River, he is not known to have ever visited Australia though he travelled ...
Beilby,
Mr. Beilby showed seven paintings at the 1847 Exhibition of Colonial Artists in Adelaide. The works, which included landscape and figurative works, received mixed reviews.
Benjamin, David, b. 1817
Cabinetmaker who arrived in Australia in 1840.
Bennett, George, b. 1804
After two previous trips to Australia as a natural historian, George Bennett finally settled in Sydney in 1836 and worked as a medical practitioner. He ...
Bennett, John
John Bennett exhibited two landscapes at the 1849 exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia.
Berkeley, Charles
Charles Berkeley emigrated to South Australia where he joined the police ranks after a failed attempt at farming. An occasional sketcher known only for an ...
Berkeley, Martha Maria Snell, b. 1813
England-born resident of Australia's southern states, Berkeley is best known for her large watercolours of Adelaide and as a gifted portraitist. The Art Gallery of ...
Bicheno, James Ebenezer, b. 1785
James Ebenezer Bicheno arrived in Van Dieman's Land for a position as Colonial Secretary. Active in the artistic community of Hobart in the 1840s and ...
Blackwood, Francis Price, b. 1809
No original work of Francis Price Blackwood's exists, but a woodcut after one of his sketches was published in a volume by Harden Sidney Melville ...
Bland, G., b.
G. Bland did not stay long in Victoria but it is known that he worked as a portrait painter in Melbourne and Geelong. It was ...
Bland, William
William Bland was a portrait painter in Sydney in the late 1840s. He exhibited with the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Australia ...
Blandowski, Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig, b. 1822
William Blandowski lived in Australia for almost a decade and in that time he explored tracts of Central Victoria and helped found the Geological Society ...
Blaxland, Jane Elizabeth, b. 1806
Jane Elizabeth Blaxland was born into one of the early colonial 'aristocratic' families of Australia and although she was reported by others to have been ...
Blaxland, Mary Ellen, b. 1815
The youngest of merchant and settler John Blaxland's 11 children, Mary Ellen Blaxland and her sisters were all encouraged to sketch by their mother and ...
Bloxsome, Henrietta E.
Living in Australia for roughly two decades in the mid-19th century, a number of Henrietta Bloxsome's works survive in national collections. They variously depict scenes ...
Bluett, Thomas, b.
Thomas Bluett settled in Hobart in 1843 and became a well-known lithographer whose clients included artists such as Thomas Chapman and Mary Morton Allport.
Blyth, Eliza
Miss Blyth was a painter and art teacher who exhibited in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales despite living predominantly in Hobart, Tasmania. Formerly ...
Bock, Thomas, b. 1790
A first-class engraver and photographer, Thomas Bock was transported to Van Dieman's Land for assisting in an abortion. He stayed on in Australia after his ...
Boswell, Annabella Alexandra Campbell, b. 1826
Annabella Alexandra Campbell Boswell was a diarist and accomplished flower painter who grew up in central west New South Wales before moving to Port Macquarie. ...