Professional photographer, Brisbane, mid 1850s, owned the Brisbane Daguerrean Gallery. Despite a stirring advertisement for his business in local papers, he moved from central premises ...
Photographer. At the age of eighty-six, she was seen at the Cohuna Centenary of Local Government ceremony photographing the procession with a little 2A Box ...
Colonial sketcher and explorer, aged 18 when he joined a fatal expedition to the north west of Western Australia, leaving behind a series of sketches, ...
Sketcher, designer, illuminator and decorator George Frederick Smith was awarded a variety of medals for his illuminations, imitation marbling and wood graining. Smith's pen sketches ...
Contemporary comic book artist who participated in 'Silent Army' - a publication featuring the works of 20 young Australian comic book veterans published as part ...
Colonial artist and public servant, arrived in Van Diemen's Land from Ireland. He sketched and painted and was involved with the Buckingham Volunteer Corps of ...
Colonial portrait and landscape painter, among the more prominent people he painted were Mr Scott, George Allen MLC and David Jones. Local scenery was also ...
Relative of James Cook, he also served the navigator aboard the Endeavour in the voyage to Australia, and according to Cook particularly instrumental in making ...
Nephew of James Cook, related to Isaac Smith, the colonial artist painted portraits and the marine. Some of his more accomplished works include two large ...
Amateur photographer and scientist, a professor at the University of Sydney, also active in a number of social issues such as water, tertiary education for ...
Colonial artist with reputed connections to later painter James McNeil Whistler. She was an avid sketcher of Glenrock, her home and one of the first ...