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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 ...
Want, Randolph John, b. 1811
Prominent solicitor and Member of Parliament (1856-61). Although relatively unknown as an artist, four small signed pencil drawings by Want dating from about 1843 are ...
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 ...
Webster, John, b. 1818
Webster produced sketches during the voyage of the 'Wanderer' in 1851. These were later worked up by George French Angas into twenty-five watercolours, intended as ...
West, E. H.
Watercolour painter and designer, appears to have been in Sydney in the late 1840s when she painted a watercolour, Henrietta Villa, Eliza Point, Rose Bay.
Westmacott, Robert Marsh, b. 1801
Sketcher, army officer and pioneer, is best known for his Sketches in Australia, a volume of eighteen tinted lithographic views each preceded by a short ...
Wheeler, Charles
Sketcher and Quaker missionary he visited Tasmania in 1834 while on a mission tour of the South Sea islands and eastern Australia, arriving in Sydney ...
Wickham, John Clements, b. 1798
English naval officer and police magistrate who would marry into the Macarthur family after serving on the Beagle for over a decade. In the course ...
Williams, Florence Elizabeth, b. 1833
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Williams, Henry
Colonial male oil painter, watercolourist and photographer from Hobart Town who painted children and hunters.
Willis, James A. C., b. 1834
Colonial male surveyor whose amateur watercolour drawings of landscapes received certificates of merit and were published as lithographs.
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, James, b. 1804
James Armstrong Wilson was a portrait and figure painter born in Scotland. A resident of Sydney and surrounding areas he drowned in a storm with ...
Wilson, William H., b. 1795
Wilson was an illustrator and wood-engraver who came to Sydney in 1828 where he took up premises as one of the few commercial artist-engravers in ...
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 ...
Wingate, Thomas, b. 1807
Retired army officer who came to Sydney in 1852. Wingate worked in the media of photography, painting and drawing. He exhibited a photographic panorama of ...
Woolcott, Charles Henry, b. 1821
Painter and public servant, was born in Exeter, England. In 1832 he accompanied his parents to Sydney, where he began to work with the City ...
Zouch, Henry, b. 1811
Superintendent Zouch was in charge when the anti-Chinese riots erupted on the Lambing Flat (Young) goldfields in 1860-61. Zouch's only identified sketch is a watercolour ...
the de Metzes, , b.
The de Metzes were sketchers and teachers. In 1834 they advertised at Sydney that they wished to open 'a Ladies' Establishment within two miles of ...
Sands & McDougall
Sands & McDougall was a large printing firm in 19th century Sydney. The firm employed artists to design invitations and illuminations.