Francis Guillemard Simpkinson was a painter, diarist and naval officer. In 1845 at the Hobart Town Art Exhibition, (the first major fine arts exhibition in ...
19th century painter, sculptor and civil servant, whose pre-Raphaelite type medallion portraits of several associates and family members were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. ...
Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith whose obsession with natural history put upon his son the responsibility to expand his existing collection when young Smith ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with ...
A well-connected colonial official for most of his life, Solly was an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist with representation in significant collections.
Dismissed as a clergyman, Spurr advertised as a drawing and painting teacher before going on to become an architectural draughtsman. A position he was consequently ...
With his 'passion for the sea', Stanley joined the Royal Navy, which lead him to produce numerous watercolours of Port Essington, the Swan River settlement, ...
Sarah Ann Steffanoni was a gold bullion embroiderer, born in Warwick, England, who moved with her family, along with the Fairfax family to Sydney, Australia ...