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Varley, Frank
Frank Varley was a colonial period Victorian painter, scene-painter, cartoonist, caricaturist and lithographer who eventually settled in New Zealand. With R.J. Morressy, Varley founded the ...
Vaughan, H.
H. Vaughan was an amateur photographer who advertised a camera and chemicals for sale in August 1865.
Verney, George Hope
An amateur photographer and army officer, Verney was taking photographs at Government House, George Street, Brisbane in 1868-69. In 1877 he published two articles in ...
Vial, William, b. 1821
coach-builder, who may have sketched the scene where he intervened in the attempted assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf Beach, Sydney on 12 ...
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 ...
Vieusseux, Julie Elizabeth Agnes, b. 1820
Oil Painter, art teacher and proprietor, with her husband, of an élite ladies' college in Melbourne. Vieusseux's portrait of painter Eugene von Guérard is held ...
Vize, William Henry, b. 1833
William Henry Vize was a trained chemist who turned an amateur interest in photography into a second business producing portraits and landscape photographs in regional ...
W., C.
Colonial period magazine illustrator who contributed to the Illustrated Sydney News in 1864.
W., G. G.
sketcher, painted a naive watercolour of a settler's house dated 26 April 1867 and inscribed 'Main Range, nr. Toowoomba'.
W., H. M.
H.M.W was a sketcher. Their signed watercolour of Government House in Sydney, dated 1866, is held in the Mitchell Library at the State Library of ...
W., J. C.
Little is known about this colonial artist except that he possessed admirable drawing skills. It is unfortunate that only one example survives of his talent.
Wagner, Conrad, b. 1818
Painter, scene-painter and professional photographer of German origin. Always more interested in painting than photography, Wagner produced watercolours, pastels and oil paintings as well as ...
Walkden,
sketcher and governess, drew a pen-and-ink view of Wermatong Selection Home on the Tumut Plains, NSW, while employed as governess to the children of George ...
Walker, George
Painter and professional photographer, exhibited artworks, mainly copies, at the Melbourne Exhibition, 1854 and Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Although listed in the Melbourne Directory as ...
Walker, James
Professional photographer with premises in Pitt and George Streets, Sydney. Advertised to take photographs in the 'first style of the art'.
Walker, Theresa, b. 1807
Walker received little formal education, but as a young woman showed considerable talent in the art of modelling. She would become very well known for ...
Walsh, James, b. 1833
painter and clerk. Arrived in Western Australia as a convict in 1854. A series of twelve pencil and watercolour sketches of Aborigines are attributed to ...
Walter, Charles, b. 1831
Charles Walter was possibly Australia's first photojournalist. His early photographic work recorded local Aboriginal people at government stations.
Walters, Samuel, b. 1811
Painter, worked mainly in Liverpool, England, specialising in pictures of ships. The National Library holds his oil painting of S.S. Australian (1862). Walters never came ...
Wangenheim, Gustavus, b. 1882
Colonial Sydney cartoonist, painter and publican.