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Daplyn, Alfred James, b. 1844
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...
Darley, Lucy Forrest, b. 1839
A 'lady of great culture', a prominent figure and a 'grande dame', Lady Darley developed a talent for 'spirit drawing'. Working intuitively she developed psychic ...
Davies, David, b. 1864
David Davies, the son of a Ballarat miner, first came to public notice in the late 1880s when he was a student at the National ...
Davis, Aquila John
Photographer who worked in Melbourne 1866 to 1880.
Dean, Thomas, b. 1857
Sydney based railway fettler and amateur oil painter with an art career lasting over sixty years. Dean was a regular exhibitor with the (Royal) Art ...
Dean, Edward Charles, b. 1832
Edward Charles Dean was born in 1832. He was designer and draughtsman who won an award at the Inter-Colonial Exhibition in Victoria 1866-67 and one ...
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Degotardi, John, b. 1823
Degotardi, an Austrian ex-pat, arrived in Australia in 1853 and worked in numerous printing houses in Sydney. Later in his career, he became interested in ...
Delawarr, Valentine, b. 1852
Late Victorian to Federation era landscape painter who worked in Sydney, Perth, Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand.
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Devereux, John, b. 1810
Deveril, Herbert
A professional photographer and photolithographer, Deveril worked in Melbourne until 1873 when he moved to New Zealand permanently. He was quite prolific and worked as ...
Devine, Catherine
Catherine Devine was a painter. She was the sister of Mary Stoddard.
Dibdin, Robert Lowes, b. 1843
The "gentleman artist", Dibdin is considered Rockhampton's first resident painter, also an actor, an estate agent, and a gold buyer. Dibdin was the founding secretary ...
Dicker, Charles William Hamilton, b. 1855
Nineteenth-century natural history painter. He travelled widely throughout mainland Australia and Tasmania, sketching landscapes, flowers and insects.
Diederich, Edmund, b. 1854
Trained in lithography and photography in Germany, Edmund Diederich emigrated to South Australia in 1881. He worked for a short time in Adelaide before pursuing ...
Dinham, George, b. 1807
George Dinham emigrated to Tasmania around 1846, he was an amateur painter who exhibited in several major exhibitions.
Docker, Ernest Brougham, b. 1839
Photographer, lawyer and Supreme Court Judge, Docker's articles on photography were published widely. He also developed an original method of dry-plate photography and of mounting ...
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Docker, Joseph, b. 1802
Photographer Joseph Docker is thought to have taken the earliest surviving calotypes in Australia. With his photographer son, they took many images of the Australian ...
Douglas, Jessie, b. 1854
Jessie Douglas was a painter and teacher. She ran a ladies' school for five years (1877-82). She ran the school as "Mrs" Douglas - an ...
Douglass, Elizabeth, b. 1825
Elizabeth Douglass worked mainly in miniature portraits on ivory, chalk drawings, watercolour, engraving and oil colour. Her work received recognition at the Geelong Mechanics Institute, ...
Dowling, Robert Hawker, b. 1827
With subjects ranging from Aboriginal to Bibical and orientalist scenes, Dowling was the first to establish the pattern of expatriate exploitation of home patronage, which ...