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Whiting, Ada, b. 1858
Oil and watercolour painter and miniaturist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania. She was a rapid worker, painting up to three miniatures a week, landscapes, flowers ...
Whyte, Janie Wilkinson, b. 1869
Whyte was from the 'first wave' of feminist artists and among the first women in Melbourne to paint dockyard scenes. Although she painted flowers and ...
Wilkie, Nora, b. 1874
Melburnian watercolourist and sometime treasurer of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Wilkinson, Harry Strongitharm, b. 1845
English-born painter and journalist/writer who lived in America in the 1870s then moved to New Zealand where he began professional painting and who moved to ...
Williams, Florence Elizabeth, b. 1833
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Williams, Frederick Matthew, b. 1855
English painter who was trained in Melbourne and travelled to Perth, via the WA goldfields before becoming President of WA Society of Art. Before leaving ...
Williamson, Elizabeth, b. 1860
Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Williamson was a frame-maker. She married Tom Roberts on 30 April 1896. Her frames were hung at the Royal Academy in London ...
Wilshire, Rosalie, b. 1866
Sydney-based poet and illustrator whose oil and watercolour paintings included landscapes, still lifes and shell studies. She had a book of poetry published illustrated with ...
Wilson, Ada
Ada Wilson was a lacemaker and designer. She was president of the committee for the promotion of a School of Lace Design in Hobart in ...
Wilson, William George, b. 1849
Painter, exhibited with the Queensland Art Society from 1892 to 1913.
Wilson, Dora L., b. 1883
Best known for her street scenes showing figures in dappled light, Dora Wilson was also a printmaker who was awarded a silver medal for the ...
Winckler, Ruby, b. 1886
Ruby Winckler was a painter and illustrator who exhibited with the NSW Society of Artists. Winckler spent some time in America after accepting a commission ...
Wishart, George, b. 1872
Brisbane based artist whose painting practice focused on marine subjects around Moreton Bay or on the Brisbane River.
Withers, Walter, b. 1854
The English born painter Walter Withers is known for his moody landscapes of the Victorian landscape around Heidelberg, Eaglemont and Creswick. In the brotherhood of ...
Wolinski, Joseph, b. 1872
painter, did a large oil painting showing NSW rising from a bed of native flora which decorated an arch erected for the Federation procession in ...
Wood, J. B. Athol
Modeller, signed an eight and a half inch tall plaster bust of the theatre entrepreneur J.C. Williamson.
Woodhouse, Frederick, b. 1848
Painter, painted many Melbourne Cup winners, including 'Auraria, Winner of the Melbourne Cup, 1895, with John Stevenson up, at Flemington,' 1895, oil on canvas, which ...
Woodhouse, Herbert James, b. 1858
Late colonial period Melbourne painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor, is buried in Geelong Cemetery, Victoria.
Woodroffe, Jessie, b. 1897
Jessie Woodroffe attended L.J. Harvey's first pottery class at the Central Technical College, Brisbane in August 1916 and was the first potter to have a ...
Woodward, Arthur Thomas, b. 1865
Arthur Thomas Woodward was a painter and art teacher. He introduced the teaching of crafts to the School of Art and Design at the Bendigo ...