William Gilbert Rees, a Welsh painter, engineer and pastoralist, travelled to Queensland in 1852. In 1858 he returned to Britain, married and settled in New ...
John Renno worked as a scene-painter and theatre mechanist at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Princess's and the Surrey Theatre, London. In 1852 he migrated ...
Walter Renny, painter and decorator, was proprietor of the Royal Blue House, which derived its name from being 'painted in blocks of blue and white ...
English born Henry Willey Reveley, sketcher, architect and civil engineer, was responsible for the design and supervision of public works at Fremantle, Perth and outlying ...
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 ...
John Richardson, painter, professional photographer and teacher, trained at the Royal Academy, London. He painted scenes from British history and literature, as well as copies ...
Lady Margaret Richardson-Bunbury was born in 1795. She was an embroiderer and garden designer. Lady Richardson-Bunbury formed the first Western Australian branch of the British ...
Richard Rishworth, listed in the Ballarat Directory in 1857 as artist and decorator, lived at Bakery Hill, Ballarat East, Victoria. He was also Secretary for ...
John Rider Roberts, landscape painter, illustrator, surveyor and architect, was closely associated with the Illustrated Sydney News (1853-1855; 1863-1868). His obituary in the Illustrated Sydney ...
Thomas Roberts was a painter, art teacher and administrator. He made a portrait of Rev. Thomas Smith which Sydney Morning Herald described as, "painted in ...
Thomas E. Robinson was watercolourist, engraver and lithographer who also produced illustrated advertisements and billheads for several Tasmanian merchants.
Julius Albert (Bela) Rochlitz was not only a professional photographer but also a composer, music and language teacher, author, civil engineer and soldier. He died ...
Charles (Rhodius) Rodius was a portraitist, illustrator, draughtsman, lithographer and singer. He was sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing a reticule containing a handkerchief, ...