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Vaughan, H.
H. Vaughan was an amateur photographer who advertised a camera and chemicals for sale in August 1865.
Verney, George Hope
An amateur photographer and army officer, Verney was taking photographs at Government House, George Street, Brisbane in 1868-69. In 1877 he published two articles in ...
Vidal, Mary Therese, b. 1815
A miniature painter and sketcher whose works are held in the National Library of Australia, Vidal is better known as a novelist and is considered ...
Vieusseux, Julie Elizabeth Agnes, b. 1820
Oil Painter, art teacher and proprietor, with her husband, of an élite ladies' college in Melbourne. Vieusseux's portrait of painter Eugene von Guérard is held ...
Vize, William Henry, b. 1833
William Henry Vize was a trained chemist who turned an amateur interest in photography into a second business producing portraits and landscape photographs in regional ...
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A colonial period newspaper illustrator who contributed to publications such as the Town and Country Journal.
Wagner, Conrad, b. 1818
Painter, scene-painter and professional photographer of German origin. Always more interested in painting than photography, Wagner produced watercolours, pastels and oil paintings as well as ...
Walker, Anna Frances, b. 1830
A prolific botanical painter, Anna Frances Walker won many awards for her flower paintings, although always proudly remaining an amateur gentlewoman.
Walker, James
Professional photographer with premises in Pitt and George Streets, Sydney. Advertised to take photographs in the 'first style of the art'.
Walter, Charles, b. 1831
Charles Walter was possibly Australia's first photojournalist. His early photographic work recorded local Aboriginal people at government stations.
Wangenheim, Gustavus, b. 1882
Colonial Sydney cartoonist, painter and publican.
Ward,
An art teacher who taught at Christ Church School, Sydney. His students' work was exhibited in the 1875 NSW Academy of Art's exhibition.
Warwick, Benjamin
Watercolour painter made a number of botanical watercolour drawings in 1863 65, mainly of plants in the Sydney Botanic Gardens. A further nine watercolours by ...
Washbourne, Thomas J.
Professional photographer, published a series of stereoscopic photographs of views in Victoria, primarily of the Melbourne and Geelong districts, at Melbourne in the late 1860s.
Watson, John
Professional photographer, operated photographic studios in Brisbane and Sydney. In 1874, he published 'Watson's Queensland Album of Photographic Scenery'.
Watson, Robert
Professional photographer, is listed as working at Ipswich, Queensland, between 1866 and 1878.
Watts,
Scene-painter who painted scenery for a performance at the Queen's Theatre, Melbourne in 1850. In 1867 he executed a large transparency in oils for the ...
Watts, Aland, b. 1834
Aland Watts specialised in painting and decorating shop windows but also painted pictures, mainly in oil.
Wauch, Anna Sarah Rachel, b. 1828
Painted watercolour scenes around the Port Macquarie area. Her work, described as 'spirited' and 'lively', depicted subjects such as a dismounted trooper fighting a tribal ...
Webb, Alexander James, b. 1813
oil and watercolour painter. Migrated to Victoria about 1855 and settled in Geelong. His work consisted mainly of landscapes, most of which were done in ...