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Ross, Frances Cecil, b. 1890
Ross won the Society of Arts drawing competition for students in all art schools in 1907 and was the star pupil at Perth Technical School ...
Rossi, Daisy Mary, b. 1879
Daisy Mary Rossi was the first woman member of the Town Planning Board in Perth, WA. She made a number of interesting statements such as, ...
Roth, A. Constance, b. 1859
Constance Roth, painter, cartoonist, decorative artist, art teacher and journalist, taught life drawing at Julian Ashton's in 1885. She departed Australia in 1892, travelling to ...
Rouse, Eliza Ann, b. 1843
Anne (Bessie) Rouse was a highly talented painter, designer and decorator. A family trip to Britain in the late 1860s was crucial to her creative ...
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Rowan, Marian Ellis, b. 1848
A Melbourne born, prolific natural history painter with an international reputation. Her work was classified within the despised female 'hobby' of flower painting.
Rowbotham, Walter, b. 1878
Painter and teacher, won the Royal College of Art Scholarship and the Royal College of Art Travelling Scholarship. Rowbotham exhibited with West Australian Society of ...
Rowe, Minnie Isabella, b. 1882
Minnie Rowe's oeuvre is strongly influenced by the 'art nouveau' illustrative style. Her work demonstrates similarities to the illustrative work of Arthur Rackham and the ...
Royce, Florence, b. 1874
Royce was elected a member of the British Association of Ceramic Art and invited to exhibit 'two or three... vases of Australian design' in the ...
Rubbo, Dattilo, b. 1870
Rubbo held art classes at the Royal Art Society for 28 years, and private classes from 1898 to 1941. He often gave his students affectionate ...
Rudd, Iris Lorna, b. 1893
Early 20th century Regional Queensland painter, photographer and craftworker. As well as inheriting a strong Protestant work ethic and sense of duty, Iris had initiative ...
Rumney, Winifred, b. 1870
Winifred May Quinnell, born 1870 in Multan, Pakistan (then India), arriving in Australia with her family in 1889. Lived in Brisbane from 1890 where she ...
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Rushton, Florence Gertrude, b. 1884
We can only infer that without the demands of husband and children she, like many other women of her generation, was drawn to the potentially ...
Russell, John Peter, b. 1858
Painter John Peter Russell spent three decades living and working in Europe where Vincent Van Gogh was a fellow student in Paris. With his extensive ...
Russom, Reg, b. 1887
Australian cartoonist who worked in New York. In Sydney, he had studied under Julian Ashton and exhibited with the Royal Art Society.
Ryko,
Ryko was a professional photographer working in Darwin in the early 1900s.
Salvana, J., b. 1873
J. Salvana was a painter. At a Smoke Night for the Art Society of NSW in September 1897, it was reported, "Messrs A.R. Coffey, Perry, ...
Sanders, Ethel D.
Watercolour and oils painter who exhibited with West Australian Society of Arts, Perth Society of Artists, Victorian Art Society and the Launceston Art Society.
Sansom, Eve
A leatherworker, china painter and pewterworker who resided and taught in Sydney in early 1900s.
Sass, Alexander Phillip, b. 1870
Federation-era Melbourne painter and cartoonist who also spent time in New York and Sydney. Sass was a member of the Prehistoric Order of Cannibals, founded ...
Scanlan, Thomas Richard, b. 1860
Jeweller in Perth and Boulder who became a large wholesale manufacturer in 1903.