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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 ...
Angas, George French, b. 1822
A watercolour and natural history painter, many of Angas's sketches from his travels as a naturalist in the mid 1800s became the basis for lithographic ...
Angas, John Howard, b. 1823
Pastoralist and member of parliament, John Howard Angas was also a natural history painter. He painted birds, insects, and flowers, but no surviving work is ...
Gilfillan, John, b. 1793
After a tumultuous childhood running away to sea, being shipwrecked and press ganged for 8 years, Gilfillan studied art and made it his career. He ...
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Gill, Samuel, b. 1818
Colonial era watercolourist, lithographer and presumably photographer who documented exploration and the Gold Rush in Australia.
Glover, Henry, b.
Watercolour painter of landscapes and portraits. Resided in Adelaide.
Henderson, James, b. 1821
Sketcher, photographer, engineer and explorer, he came to Adelaide in 1840 as a surveyor. The drawings and paintings Henderson made on an 1843 expedition to ...
Irvine, John, b. 1805
As a painter and portraitist, John Irvine made a name for himself in Scotland as well as Adelaide and Dunedin. Actively involved in art societies, ...
Jefferson, Joseph, b. 1829
Joseph Jefferson was a landscape and scene-painter and an actor. He was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson made his stage debut when he ...
Langeake, John
Scene-painter, painted the scenery for South Australia's first theatrical venue, ambitiously christened the Theatre Royal, in the room above the Adelaide Tavern in May 1838. ...
MacCormac, Andrew, b. 1826
Male colonial painter of portraits, a few landscape and genre paintings, who mainly worked in South Australia, portraying the upper classes.
Macleod, Mary Frances Theodosia
Colonial female artist and musician whose drawings of Government House were appreciated by Governor Gawler's wife. The artist played harp and piano on Glenelg Beach ...
Magill, J. N.
Unknown colonial sketcher who signed a watercolour of Adelaide, South Australia. The work is held at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.
Morison, A.
painter, wax modeller and clergyman, Melbourne
Murray, Alexander, b. 1803
Watercolourist, farmer, politician and manufacturer. In 1845 he took an exhibition, 'South Australia As It Is', to Scotland.
Opie, Edward, b. 1809
Painter, scene-painter, theatre director and actor. Born in England he arrived in Australia in 1839 and worked throughout South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania. He reputedly ...
Plush, Thomas Hall, b. 1809
Thomas Hall Plush was a photographic showman, house-painter and gilder. Plush and 'Professor' Robert Hall held a magic-lantern show in Adelaide, showing dissolving views and ...
Richardson, George, b. 1822
George Bouchier Richardson, sketcher, engraver, watercolourist and editor, 'regretted the necessity which compelled him to join his parents in Australia in 1854, but hoped that ...
Schramm, Alexander, b. 1814
Painter, lithographer and sculptor. In 1849 Schramm migrated to South Australia.
Shaw, James, b. 1815
James Shaw was born in 1815. He was a painter, photographer, engraver, lithographer, surveyor and lawyer. Shaw's two works 'Flood at Kent Town' and 'Sticking ...