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Dobson, Thomas, b. 1814
Dobson was a pioneer in cyclonology and invented a machine to illustrate the deviation of the compass in iron ships. Author of six books on ...
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 ...
Dowling, William Paul, b. 1824
William Paul Dowling was a painter, engraver and photographer. In 1849 he was transported to Hobart Town as a political prisoner. Dowling worked in partnership ...
Downey, Denis, b. 1842
A photographer based in Carlton, Victoria. He died of arsenic poisoning, just one of the hazardous chemicals used in photography at the time.
Drinkwater, Charles, b. 1818
Charles Drinkwater was a professional photographer. In 1868 he established C. Drinkwater's Chromo Gallery in Sydney. The person with the same name and surname who ...
Du Cane, Edmund Frederick, b. 1830
Engaged as a Royal Engineer to superintend the works for the proposed convict establishment in Western Australia. Du Cane's sketches and paintings of exploratory expeditions, ...
Duesbury, William, b.
Colonial era Queensland cartoonist, sketcher, architect and surveyor.
Duffield, Edwin Foss, b. 1846
Edwin Foss Duffield was born in 1846. He was a cabinetmaker. He lived in Beach Street Fremantle in 1905. His work is held in the ...
Dufty, Francis Herbert
A professional photographer, Dufty travelled around Victoria offering his services. His images were said to be 'the sweetest Australian scenes' photographed.
Dunn, Edward Carey
Edward Carey Dunn was a sketcher and settler. He lived in Victoria. Dunn was one of the 'early colonists' photographed by Thomas Chuck in 1872.
Dunnett, Frank C., b. 1822
Frank C. Dunnett was a painter, lithographer and surveyor. As a chronic asthmatic he was advised to leave Britain and so in about 1856 he ...
Durkin, Tom, b. 1853
Colonial political cartoonist.
Duryea, Townsend, b. 1823
Nineteenth-century American-born photographer who emigrated to Australia. Duryea worked in various states, but mainly South Australia. He became a leading photographer of his day, particularly ...
Duryea, Townsend , b. 1855
Townsend Duryea Jr, professional photographer the son of prominent American born Adelaide photographer Townsend Duryea Sr. He worked for Rushton & Just, Adelaide c 1883 ...
Duterrau, Benjamin, b. 1767
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Dwight, Henry Tolman, b. 1823
Henry Tolman Dwight was a professional photographer, bookseller and publisher. In 1858 he advertised in Melbourne Directory as a 'Daguerrean and Photographic artist'. Dwight exhibited ...