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 ...
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 ...
Rowena Birkett was a natural history painter who is credited with assisting naturalist and artist Silvester Diggles with the illustrations and colouring of some of ...
Peripatetic artist who produced copious landscape images and sold them off inventively (through art unions). Finally settling down in Sydney, he taught in various private ...
Scenic painter and decorator who worked in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. Campbell also painted views of places and buildings around Perth.
Portrait, landscape and transparency painter born in London. He worked in Brisbane, Rockhampton and Gympie in Queensland and 'obtained considerable celebrity as a portrait and ...
Watercolour painter, photographer, architect and engineer born in Liverpool, England. Resident of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia he was responsible for the ...
Professional photographer and schoolteacher, Hazelton practiced in Queensland in the mid 1850s. Later moving with his wife and children to Sydney, where he continued as ...
Thomas Henry Huxley was a sketcher, amateur photographer, biologist, anthropologist, philosopher and scientific publicist. Appointed assistant surgeon and naturalist to HMS 'Rattlesnake' he was part ...
Arthur Kipling worked as a professional photographer and publican. In the 1860s he travelled throughout Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland taking photographs, notably portraits.
Professional photographer and colourist of Brisbane, Sydney and Queensland who worked throughout the mid to late 19th century. A one-time partner of Andrew Chandler, Lomer's ...