Thomas Hall Plush was a photographic showman, house-painter and gilder. Plush and 'Professor' Robert Hall held a magic-lantern show in Adelaide, showing dissolving views and ...
Isaac Polack was a professional photographer working in Sydney in the second half of the 1840s. His grandfather was Solomon Joel Polack, a London miniature ...
Edwin Augustus Porcher was a sketcher and naval officer. He was scientific observer and unofficial artist aboard the Royal Navy's corvette Fly which, with the ...
Charles Price was known as a painter, amateur photographer, architect and Independent (Congregational) clergyman. He designed and erected, at his own expense, the brick Congregational ...
Prout was a painter, lithographer, art teacher and writer. An Australian critic once described his works as 'one of those wild and scattery bits, both ...
Putland's father Governor William Bligh described her work as 'some little fancy drawings.' He was not so condensing when, barely a fortnight after her husband's ...
François-Edmond Pâris was a painter, draughtsman, scholar and naval officer. He was born in Paris in 1806. Pâris entered the navy in 1820 and within ...
C.J.W.R. was a watercolourist whose only known work features Melbourne circa 1841. There is suspicions that it may not have been painted in 1841 or ...
Charles Rudston Read first visited Australia as a young naval officer in 1838. His career enabled him to travel to China, Brazil, the Pacific Islands ...
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.