Professional photographer, chemist and actor. Arrived in Australia as a gold-digger before settling in New Zealand where he opened the Wellington Ambrotype Portrait Gallery and ...
Illustrator. Monogrammed an illustration, 'Attempted Assassination of the HRH the Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf, NSW, 1868', which was engraved on wood by Samuel Calvert.
Benjamin Tannett was a noted theatrical scene-painter and actor working in Melbourne and Sydney in the mid nineteenth century. In 1859 Tannett painted 'new and ...
English marine painter who specialised in the subject of ships. While painting and exhibiting extensively in London, a number of works were exhibited in South ...
Painter, farmer and once a toll-gate keeper, James Edward Taylor migrated with family in 1849 from Plymouth, England, and arrived in South Australia. Lived chiefly ...
A missionary from England, Richard Taylor (1805 1873) documented his travels, excursions and acquaintances with many sketches, illustrations and watercolour drawings. His journal entries detail ...
The sketcher's 1855 coloured engraving shows an elevated view of Melbourne looking down the Yarra River. The Melbourne Punch satirised it: 'An artist with a ...
Best known in New Zealand as the Prussian-born adventurer and daring guerrilla-type fighter, and for the intricately detailed watercolours recording the events of the Waikato ...
Lithographer, 1800s, commissioned mainly brewers' show cards and whisky labels, but he did also lithograph all the plates in the three series of Dangerous Snakes ...
Elizabeth Testar (née Turner) was a painter and singer. In 1850 she arrived with her husband Thomas in Victoria. Testar became one of Melbourne's principal ...