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 ...
Sketcher and gold-digger, wrote and illustrated an account of a journey to the goldfields, between 'Kerkabaroo' on the Wakefield River, South Australia, and Bendigo in ...
painter and sculptor, the only woman in any of the Australian colonies known to have modelled large-scale sculptures. She was successful enough to retire on ...
Colonial-era Victorian and Tasmanian caricaturist, Thomas was awarded damages of 15 shillings when the subject of one of his caricatures destroyed the illustration as it ...
A miniature painter and engraver, W.W. Thwaites (1814-1888)and sons established themselves as professional photographers in West and South Australia in the 1860s. However, despite such ...
Pastoralist who sketched various subjects including Aboriginal portraits, homesteads and Australian fauna. Tindal drowned aged 25 while attempting to cross the Clarence River in NSW. ...