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Willson, John Henry, b. 1822
Architect, decorator and scene painter. As city architect he designed the present facade and vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall as well as the Woolloomooloo ...
Wilmot, George C.
Professional photographer, ran a Portrait Gallery at 31 Malop Street, West Geelong, Victoria, in 1865-86 in partnership with Key. Wilmot & Key photographed 'King Jerry, ...
Wilshire, Alice Emily, b. 1848
Sketcher, second daughter of Austin Forrest Wilshire, a Sydney merchant, and Eliza, née Pitt, married Frank Lord in Sydney 1871. Her undated pencil sketch on ...
Wilshire, Isabel Eliza, b. 1846
Sketcher, eldest daughter of Austin Forrest Wilshire and Eliza, née Pitt, married Edward Southwell Ruthven on 31 March 1874. Her pencil drawing 'Garden Island' is ...
Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Wilson, Ralph, b. 1827
English colonial architect and watercolourist who designed half of Melbourne while continuing to paint despite one critic describing his art as curry powder and mouldy ...
Wilson, William John, b. 1833
Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...
Wilson, William George, b. 1849
Painter, exhibited with the Queensland Art Society from 1892 to 1913.
Winn, C. E.
Watercolour painter, illustrator and illuminator, was highly commended for his illuminated drawing in the annual exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales. He ...
Winston, Charles Edward, b. 1825
Charles Edward Winston was a wood-engraver. He arrived in Adelaide from London in 1851. Winston worked in South Australia, Victoria, New Zealand and New South ...
Winter, Alfred, b. 1837
Alfred Winter was a sketcher and professional photographer. He exhibited at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition and was awarded an honourable mention for his work. ...
Wirgman, Charles, b. 1832
English raised Japanese cartoonist and illustrator. It is asserted in some biographies that he worked in Australia during the mid 1850s.
Wise, Henry
Colonial period Sydney Punch cartoonist.
Wivell, Edward James
A professional photographer and dancing teacher from 1869 until 1893. Wivell also became the proprietor of Adelaide's leading commercial art gallery in the 1880s.
Wood, John
Professional photographer, lived and worked in Emerald Hill, in 1866/1871. Wood was connected with David Wood and with the later photographers William and Thomas C. ...
Woodbury, Walter Bentley, b. 1834
Trained as a civil engineer, Woodbury honed his photography skills on the goldfields of Melbourne before making his way as a professional photographer to Indonesia ...
Woodhouse, Frederick, b. 1820
Woodhouse became best known for painting every Melbourne Cup winner for more than thirty years, from 1861. During a long, successful and prolific career, he ...
Woodhouse, Herbert James, b. 1858
Late colonial period Melbourne painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor, is buried in Geelong Cemetery, Victoria.
Woodhouse, W. J.
Late colonial period Adelaide cartoonist and illustrator, member of the Woodhouse family.
Woods, Julian Edmund Tenison, b. 1832
Scientist and Roman Catholic priest, Woods was skilled at detailed sketches of his specimens and often sent them in with his scientific publications. His ecclesiastical ...