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D'Emden, Henri James, b. 1824
Colonial era Tasmanian illustrator, cartoonist, lithographer, lawyer, clergyman and journalist.
D., S. E.
Colonial watercolourist known for one work, New Town Bay [Tasmania], with St John's Church, the Queen's Orphan Home and with Mount Wellington in the Distance ...
Dalton, Edwin
A prominent society photographer, teacher to Queen Victoria and inventor of the 'Biotype'. His talent for portraiture was such 'you could almost speak to' his ...
Daplyn, Alfred James, b. 1844
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...
Darling, Ida Amelia, b. 1846
Sketcher, watercolourist and chalk colourist, Ida Amelia Darling was a student of the School of Design, South Australian Society of Arts in the late 1860s ...
Darton, Lewis Glenton, b. 1858
Won a drawing prize at the 1869 South Australian Society of Arts Exhibition in the category 'Pencil drawing, original or copy, by boys not over ...
Davenport, Fanny Maria, b. 1849
Fanny Maria Davenport was born in Richmond, Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania in 1849. She was sketcher.
Davies, Emma Lyttleton
Emma Lyttleton Davies and Mary Ellen Davies were sisters and accomplished sketchers. They painted watercolours of flowers in the 1860s.
Davies, Henry Easom, b. 1831
Considered by contemporary critics to be a 'poet-painter' of colonial subjects. His Turner-esque technique nevertheless came to be considered overly stylised which may explain why, ...
Davis, Annie
Arrived in Australia in 1863 found work as a governess sponsored by the Female Middle Class Emigration Society. Later became Governess to the Allen family ...
Davis, Aquila John
Photographer who worked in Melbourne 1866 to 1880.
Davis, H.
Professional photographer, worked for the Adelaide Photographic Company 1865 to 1878.
Davis, Mary Jane
Professional photographer, worked for the Adelaide Photographic Company from 1867 and became manager in 1880.
Davis, W.
Painter, professional photographer and house painter. Exhibited work in Sydney in 1847 and in London in 1862. May also have been J. Davies.
Dawson, Patrick
Melbourne based colonial surveyor who produced photographic portraits of the Indigenous Australian cricket team before they toured England in 1867. Some were in their cricket ...
De Mole, Fanny Elizabeth, b. 1835
Nineteenth-century painter and botanical illustrator. Her book titled 'Wild Flowers of South Australia' contains twenty fine hand-coloured plates.
Dean, Edward Charles, b. 1832
Edward Charles Dean was born in 1832. He was designer and draughtsman who won an award at the Inter-Colonial Exhibition in Victoria 1866-67 and one ...
Deering, John W., b. 1838
Surveyor and amateur marine painter who arrived in Australia in 1855. Deering regularly exhibited his paintings with the New South Wales Academy of Art and ...
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Degotardi, John, b. 1823
Degotardi, an Austrian ex-pat, arrived in Australia in 1853 and worked in numerous printing houses in Sydney. Later in his career, he became interested in ...
Dellas, A.
Dellas was one of the two Drawing Masters at Melbourne's Church of England Grammar School in 1866, along with Henry Easom Davies. Dellas was reported ...