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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 ...
Archer, Charles, b. 1813
Charles Archer made numerous maps and drawings of Queensland and is considered one of its major early artists. A member of the enterprising colonial Archer ...
Austin, Robert, b. 1825
Surveyor, Austin led an exploring party north-east of Perth in 1854 and consequently published a journal of the expedition which included a couple of his ...
Austin, William
Draughtsman and painter who exhibited his watercolours in Victoria, Queensland and London. Austin witnessed the arrival of the first gold escort and depicted this event ...
Backler, Joseph, b. 1813
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...
Beazeley, Theophilus
The Rev. Theodore Beazeley was an avid amateur photography who also taught the craft in evening 'self-improvement' classes in Ipswich, Queensland in the 1850s. One ...
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 ...
Bell, Thomas, b. 1798
After emigrating from Ireland, Thomas Bell and his family lived on the land in New South Wales. After his wife died, Bell placed an advertisement ...
Bennett, William True
Emigrating from the USA, William True Bennett was a highly regarded photographer who lived and worked mostly in Queensland. The nineteenth-century equivalent to the modern ...
Bevan, Thomas
Thomas Bevan was a professional photographer in the nineteenth century who is known to have lived and practiced in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Bowdich, John
Professional photographer and one-time assistant to E.T. Brissenden, Bowdich later took over Brissenden's Ipswich studio before becoming a travelling photographer with his son Thomas. The ...
Brady, Joseph, b. 1828
Mainly a surveyor and civil engineer, Brady is known for two watercolour sketches that were executed in Melbourne shortly after his arrival in Australia.
Bright, Ashbury
Bright worked as a professional photographer from 1858 to 1868 in Victoria and Queensland. As well as producing carte-de-visite portraits in Melbourne, he photographed Aboriginal ...
Brissenden, Edwin Torrens
Edwin Torrens Brissenden advertised him as a photographer well-versed in all known photographic processes of the day.
Brown, Joseph Lyne
Renowned for his caustic wit later in life as an alderman on Cairns City Council, as a photographer Brown is best known for popularising the ...
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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 ...
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Burkitt, Horace, b. 1836
Burkitt was a prolific watercolourist who made studies of the various Victorian districts in which he was stationed as a telegraph operator. His grandson donated ...
Challinor, George Miles, b. 1833
Professional photographer and resident of Ipswich and surrounding areas in Queensland. Notable as being the first photographer of the Morton Bay Aboriginal people and as ...
Chandler, Andrew
Professional photographer. Took photographs in all the eastern colonies of Australia, except Tasmania.
Charnay, Désiré, b. 1828
Professional photographer, journalist, ethnographer and collector.