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Solly, Benjamin Travers, b. 1820
A well-connected colonial official for most of his life, Solly was an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist with representation in significant collections.
Solomon, Saul, b. 1836
Portrait painter, professional photographer, businessman, civic leader and politician. The La Trobe Library has a number of albums of his work and the Mortlock Library ...
Solomon, Yertebrida
Yertabrida Solomon remains the only identified woman artist of Aboriginal descent to make drawings in Australia in the nineteenth century.
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Sommer, John Conrad, b. 1828
Continental photographer, house painter and drawing teacher, who liked to keep up to date with the latest fashions in photography for commercial purposes.
Southern, E.
An artist known by various names and occupations through erroneous referencing. An elusive teacher of 'artistic drawing' he disappeared after 1860.
Spery, Adolph
Pub dwelling photographer of East Melbourne.
Spragg, George H.
Spragg was a professional photographer who worked in the NSW regions of Maitland and Sydney during the 1860s and 1870s.
Spurling, Stephen, b. 1821
A better photographer than businessman, Stephen Spurling was admired for his sensitive portraits. An album containing some of his work so impressed the Duke of ...
Stacey, John Samuel, b. 1830
Young artist and teacher who was regularly praised in the local press but like so many others found the artistic freelance life a difficult one ...
Stacy, Robert Sheppard, b. 1834
Robert Stacy emigrated from England to South Australia as a young boy in 1841. He practiced photography from c.1962, establishing a series of photographic studios ...
Stanley, B.
Stanley was an amateur photographer who lived in the Sydney colony up until 1860, when he advertised his stereoscopic camera for sale due to his ...
Starnes, William Henry, b. 1815
A painter and coach-maker, Starnes exhibited with the South Australian Society of Arts. His enthusiasm one year lead him to show works under two names ...
Steffanoni, Lewis, b. 1837
painter, illuminator and businessman, was born in London before moving to Australia. He made many well known illuminations, and won a bronze medal at the ...
Steffanoni, Sarah Ann, b. 1844
Sarah Ann Steffanoni was a gold bullion embroiderer, born in Warwick, England, who moved with her family, along with the Fairfax family to Sydney, Australia ...
Stephen, George, b. 1812
Throughout his artistic life Stephen worked as a miniaturist and sketcher, offset by such occupations as public servant, geologist, barrister, politician and faith healer (it ...
Stephen, Henrietta, b.
Painter and art collector from a family of anti-slavery campaigners - her uncle was William Wilberforce. Lady Stephen came to Melbourne in 1855 and several ...
Stephenson, Edward Rigby, b. 1847
Edward Rigby Stephenson, a sketcher, born in South Wales travelled extensively while studying, and after a brief illness died in 1865. After his death 'Miscellaneous ...
Stevens, George
Painter and photographer(?), exhibited twenty-two still-life paintings at the Royal Academy, London. Despite glowing reviews, Stevens appears to have had very little success in selling ...
Stevenson, W. M.
W. M. Stevenson, a sketcher who lived in Melbourne, had artworks in both the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition and the Melbourne Public Library Exhibition.
Stewart, D.
D. Stewart, painter, showed an oil painting, Christ Healing the Sick, at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition.