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Abel, August Theodor, b. 1802
This chemist, mineralogist and amateur artist had an interest in religious art. A German immigrant, he settled in Ballarat, becoming an active member of the ...
Adeney, William, b.
Male colonial sketcher who drew landscapes throughout his migration to Australia. He eventually squatted in the Western District of Victoria where he pursued an anthropological ...
Akers, Charles Style, b.
English colonial Royal engineer whose watercolours and drawings of Tasmanian scenery belied his frustration at having received such a far-flung posting. He later painted icebergs ...
Allport, Mary Louise, b. 1832
Only daughter of sketcher Mary Morton Allport. Minnie Allport's work mainly consisted of delicate watercolours of native Australian flowers, both single specimens and decorative bunches.
Archer, Alexander, b. 1828
Member of a large enterprising colonial family which included a number of fellow artists, Archer worked for a number of years for the Bank of ...
Badgery, Mary Ann, b. 1814
Marriage and nine sons meant that Mary Ann Badgery never realised her ambitions to establish herself as an art teacher however she painted and exhibited ...
Barney, George, b. 1792
George Barney was an English military officer who rose through the ranks of the Royal Engineers to become one of the most regarded and pioneering ...
Bateman, Edward La Trobe, b. 1816
Although seeking his fortune in the Victorian goldfields, Edward La Trobe Bateman instead drifted into work as an illustrator and landscape designer. One of his ...
Baxter, Annie Maria, b. 1816
Annie Maria Baxter was a prolific writer who kept meticulous diaries of her life in Australia. Her few surviving drawings are now held at the ...
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Bennett, George, b. 1804
After two previous trips to Australia as a natural historian, George Bennett finally settled in Sydney in 1836 and worked as a medical practitioner. He ...
Blandowski, Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig, b. 1822
William Blandowski lived in Australia for almost a decade and in that time he explored tracts of Central Victoria and helped found the Geological Society ...
Boulton, Edward Baker, b. 1812
Edward Baker Boulton was a grazier in northern New South Wales whose artistic practice is said to have enjoyed more attention than his sheep. A ...
Browne, Thomas Henry Johnstone, b. 1821
Watercolorist, architect, surveyor, civil engineer, schoolmaster and entrepreneur born in London. Browne was convicted of forging money orders and sentenced to ten years transportation arriving ...
Bull, Knud Geelmuyden, b. 1811
Painter, photographer and drawing master in Hobart and Sydney in the mid to late nineteeth century. Bull arrived in Australia as a convict, having been ...
Bunn, John William Buckle, b. 1830
Some crude pencil sketches of his homestead and the district of St. Omer are among the earliest known views of Canberra. Bunn contested his mother's ...
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Burkitt, Alexander Horace, b. 1807
Received thanks for his contribution to the illustrations of Woods's 'A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia' (2 vols, London, 1865). for the ...
Campbell, Oswald Rose, b. 1820
Leading colonial art teacher and painter.
Castella, Charles Hubert De, b. 1825
Painter, landowner and viticulturalist born in Switzerland. Resident of Yering and Ivanhoe, Vic. for many years. De Castella is credited as being both a talented ...
Chapman, Thomas Evans, b. 1789
Painter, art teacher, lithographer and public servant in Hobart, Tasmania. Chapman was not only one of early Tasmania's most prolific, competent and detailed sketchers but ...