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Willson, T. H.
Colonial teacher who taught young gentlemen drawing amongst other things in his Launceston academy and may have worked in England and Van Diemens Land (Tasmania).
Wilshire, Alice Emily, b. 1848
Sketcher, second daughter of Austin Forrest Wilshire, a Sydney merchant, and Eliza, née Pitt, married Frank Lord in Sydney 1871. Her undated pencil sketch on ...
Wilshire, Isabel Eliza, b. 1846
Sketcher, eldest daughter of Austin Forrest Wilshire and Eliza, née Pitt, married Edward Southwell Ruthven on 31 March 1874. Her pencil drawing 'Garden Island' is ...
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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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, Ralph, b. 1827
English colonial architect and watercolourist who designed half of Melbourne while continuing to paint despite one critic describing his art as curry powder and mouldy ...
Wilson, William Hardy, b. 1881
Wilson was a Sydney-based interwar architect, artist, author, cartographer, orientalist and futurist. Furniture and furnishings by Wilson are known. He documents many historic houses and ...
Wilson, David, b. 1946
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 ...
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Winch, John, b. 1944
Painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and renowned children's books author and illustrator.
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Winch, Madeleine, b. 1950
Contemporary Australian figure painter, printmaker and draftsperson. Winch began exhibiting in the 1970s and has been a finalist in numerous awards including the Dobell Prize ...
Wingate, Thomas, b. 1807
Retired army officer who came to Sydney in 1852. Wingate worked in the media of photography, painting and drawing. He exhibited a photographic panorama of ...
Winkles, Henry, b. 1800
Sketcher. The number and variety of his sketches suggest Winkles had first hand experience of the life of a digger.
Winstanley, Edward, b. 1820
Winstanley was an artistic contributor to the New South Wales Sporting Magazine during the late 1840s. He is best known for his images of racehorses ...