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Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Wilson, F. W.
Watercolour painter, signed a view, 'The Paddle Steamer Gondola' (1855) held at the La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria.
Wilson, James, b. 1827
James Glen Wilson was a landscape painter, naval photographer and surveyor. Irish born, Wilson was chosen to accompany the expedition to the South Seas. This ...
Wilson, James, b. 1804
James Armstrong Wilson was a portrait and figure painter born in Scotland. A resident of Sydney and surrounding areas he drowned in a storm with ...
Wilson, Adrienne
Artist who was taught drawing by correspondence with the Art Training Institute, Melbourne.
Wilson, Ambrose
sketcher and teacher, in Sydney. An inscription attributes the sketch '[Country] House of Sir Francis Forbes, Emu Plains, Nepean' (ML) to him. Two of his ...
Wilson, Bessie, b. 1836
A flower painter who died young.
Wilson, Charles
Charles Wilson was a professional photographer who brought the sennotype process to Australia. He came to Melbourne in 1862 and claimed to own the Australian ...
Wilson, Charles Algernon, b. 1818
Charles Algernon Wilson was not only a natural history painter and sketcher but also a solicitor, public servant and entomologist. In 1860 he was elected ...
Wilson, David Henry, b. 1913
Mid 20th century painter and cartoonist, David Wilson's work is held in the collection of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Wilson, Edward, b. 1813
Colonial Melbourne editor and farmer who, as an amateur cartoonist, compiled an illustrated book of his life on the farm as a gift to his ...
Wilson, Emily Annie Layard, b. 1865
Natural history artist. She was an accomplished watercolour painter of Australian wildflowers.
Wilson, Emily M.
Sketcher, won the 3-guinea prize for the best drawing from the round at exhibitions of the South Australian Society of Arts in 1863 and 1865. ...
Wilson, John Noble, b. 1832
Wilson worked as a photographer in Ballarat from 1854. It is thought that he may have spent a year or two as a travelling photographer. ...
Wilson, Lawrence George, b. 1920
Photographer, lived and worked in Geelong.
Wilson, Marjorie Grace
Sketcher and carver, was the daughter of James Wilson and Jessie, née Moyes, of Tasmania. She spent much of her leisure painting and carving flora ...
Wilson, Martha, b. 1790
Martha Wilson was a watercolour painter. Together with her husband and children she left London in 1838 bound for South Australia. Before their wooden house ...
Wilson, Martin, b. 1974
Made a series of woollen hook rug portraits of Australia's 25 Prime Ministers for exhibition titled Fuzzy Prime Ministers.
Wilson, Nell, b. 1901
Nell Wilson was a painter, commercial artist and art teacher. She was one of the Australia's most sought-after commercial illustrators in the late 1930s-40s. Wilson ...
Wilson, Nola, b. 1958
Warlpiri artist with connections to Nyirrpi (NT). She has been a member of Warlukurlangu Artists since 1987 and currently lives in Yuendumu.