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Adamson, James Hazell, b. 1829
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
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, Alice, b. 1840
Sketcher, one of a number of children of artist Henry Curzon Allport. Examples of Alice's work can be found in the Mitchell Library, State Library ...
Ardill, John Roche
A licensed surveyor, Ardill painted a watercolour, 'Eastern View of Mount Munero', in southern New South Wales in 1861.
Avery, Mary Ann, b. 1842
Mary Ann Avery was an amateur sketcher. Her watercolour 'Grafton Preece Street opposite Fisher Park 1860' is in the Clarence River Historical Society (Grafton, NSW).
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 ...
Ball, Adam Gustavus, b. 1821
Like so many artists of the period, Ball's job as a civil engineer allowed him to travel throughout South Australia recording scenes of outback life ...
Ballard, Robert
A civil engineer, Ballard drew a pencil sketch of his quarters while working on the railway between Maitland and Singleton in New South Wales in ...
Banks, Elizabeth Lindsay, b. 1849
An educator who brought drawing classes into the curriculum under her charge. Banks was appointed infant mistress at the Public School on Riley St in ...
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 ...
Barton, Charlotte, b. 1797
Charlotte Barton came to Australia upon her father's death to work as a governess. Two of her daughters went on to become well-known artists but ...
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 ...
Bedford, Alfred Perceval, b. 1848
Born to a large family in Hobart Town, Bedford moved to Sydney in 1863 with his family and worked as a portrait painter in Camperdown ...
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 ...
Blyth, W.
W. Blyth was a sketcher whose drawings of Tumut, New South Wales were exhibited in 1861 at the preparatory exhibition for the London International exhibition ...
Bonney, Charles
Charles Bonney sketched scenes of outback life while working on Momba station in outback New South Wales in the mid-19th century. He also took a ...
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 ...
Boyd, William Alexander Jenyns, b. 1842
A.J. Boyd was involved in the teaching profession for a good part of his life. In 1882 his book "Old Colonials" was published and which ...
Brissenden, Edwin Torrens
Edwin Torrens Brissenden advertised him as a photographer well-versed in all known photographic processes of the day.
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 ...