Professional photographer and studio manager, worked for Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co. at Melbourne in the late 1860s where his wife was a partner. His daughter ...
A painter whose oil painting of William Street, Bathurst dated 1893 is influenced by Tom Roberts's Bourke Street in its dry bleached palette, but lacks ...
Painter, art teacher and theosophist, she had a daughter with naturopath Don Le Friemann and lived with his wife and daughter in an un-orthodox relationship. ...
Late colonial-era painter, sketcher, comic illustrator, amateur photographer and surveyor. A founding member of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870, Henderson showed six landscapes ...
Painter, scene-painter and decorator, was born in Germany and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 where he painted theatre scenes for about four decades. Hennings's contribution ...
Professional photographer, was a foundation member of the Council of the Photographic Society of Victoria formed at Melbourne in 1860. Ran his own studios in ...
German-born, Adelaide-based painter. Probably more than any other artist, Hans Heysen changed the way Australia saw the gum tree, as for many, many years his ...
A painter who was included as a professional artist in an art exhibition in Launceston in 1885. His Tasmanian watercolours include Low Head, Tasmania, 1891, ...
Hilder's delicate, sensitive landscape watercolours were enthusiastically received when they were first exhibited in the early years of the century. This was in part because ...
An illustrator who lived in Paddington, Sydney and who won the Illustrated Sydney News' five guinea prize drawing competition in 1892 for The Young Amazon, ...
An anthropologist and collector who drew sketches of Aboriginal artefacts when collecting in the Northern Territory in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
Sketcher, explorer, journalist, miner and politician. Hodgkinson had a varied career encompassing sailing, gold prospecting, participation in the Burke and Wills relief expedition and exploration ...
London artist who accompanied mining engineer Albert F. Calvert to the West Australian goldfields and who regularly got lost because of his curiosity according to ...
Painter and professional photographer, was born in England and arrived in Adelaide in 1863 as an indentured employee of Townsend Duryea. Later he ran his ...
Federation era Vice-Regal wife, cartoonist, watercolourist and photographer. Hopetoun had little taste for public life but was a keen angler, an expert horsewoman and an ...
A conservative and influential late colonial era Bulletin cartoonist, who came to Australia after a successful career in the US. He was known as an ...