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Lang, Isabella Dunmore, b. 1843
Long-lived nineteenth-century amateur sketcher.Her drawing-book, a work of her adolescence, contains pencil sketches of buildings in England and France and two watercolours of flowers.
Lang, Ludwig, b. 1834
A German-born nineteenth-century lithographer based in Melbourne. His lithographs were mostly reproductions.
Lashbrooke, Ada
Sketcher, painted some watercolours of flowers in an unidentified album, the one work is dated 1859. An unsigned bunch of flowers, painted in a formal ...
Lau, Hermann, b.
Sketcher, traveller, musician and collector, was a native of Germany who was in New South Wales for four and a half years, but disliked Sydney. ...
Lauvergne, Barthélemy, b. 1805
Lauvergne was from a family with no previous naval tradition. He first arrived in Australia on board the 'Astrolabe' for its 1826/1829 voyage of the ...
Lawn, Thomas
Professional photographer, his photographic studio was listed in directories from 1858 to 1868 at Richmond, Victoria, before moving to East Melbourne. Focused on portraiture, and ...
Lawrance, Elizabeth, b. 1844
Embroiderer, worked a sampler at Adelaide in 1851 and sent it to her English grandparents, which includes their names, and their six children. She lived ...
Lawson, John Downie
Painter, engraver and lithographer. A resident of Melbourne,a lithograph of St John the Evangelist, Toorak produced by him and his business partner John Wesley Pearson ...
Lazenby, George, b. 1807
Cabinetmaker, master builder, lay preacher and civil servant. He was born in 1807. A man with a social conscience Lazenby was Chairman of the Swan ...
Le Gould, Louis G.
There is only one known work of Le Gould's, called a 'Decorative Panel'. Despite this minimal information, we may bear Le Gould and other decorative ...
Le Mesurier, William Henry
Caricaturist and army engineer. His work 'Professor Elliot's Grand Ascent de Cheminé' (1854) shows a hairy trouserless Lieutenant R. Elliot about to climb up the ...
Le Plastrier, Henry John
Colonial era Victorian illustrator and accountant. Bailliere's 'Melbourne Directory' for 1868, 1870 and 1871 lists Leplastrier as an accountant with Her Majesty's Customs.
Le Souëf, Caroline, b. 1834
Painter and decorative artist, after arriving in Australia her family settled in the Goulburn River Valley where her friendly contact with the local Aboriginal people ...
Leake, Charles Henry, b. 1819
Sketcher, farmer and politician of German descent who resided in Tasmania.
Leake, Georgiana Mary, b.
Watercolourist whose works mainly depict flowers from Western Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. A collection of early photographs and watercolours compiled by her ...
Leake, John Travis, b. 1810
Sketcher, was born in Yorkshire, England. He also trained in medicine and practised as a surgeon at Portland, Victoria.
Leech, John, b. 1817
Mid 19th century English cartoonist whose work included references to the Australian Gold rush of the 1850s.
Leeson, J. D., b. 1802
Professional photographer, watchmaker, shop and museum proprietor, advertised as a photographer at Sale, Victoria in 1858.
Lefevre, Emile, b. 1836
Painter and sculptor, was convicted of larceny at Middlesex, England, in 1857 and transported to Western Australia in the Sultana, arriving on 19 August 1859. ...
Leffler,
Sketcher, exhibited two works with the South Australian Society of Arts at Adelaide in 1859: 'Head' and 'The Ruined Tower'.