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Martens, Conrad, b. 1801
Well-travelled (South America, South Pacific and Australasia) English colonial watercolourist, oil painter, lithographer, sketcher and landscape artist who is one of the better known 19th ...
Mason, Abraham John, b. 1794
19th century colonial wood engraver.
Mason, Walter, b. 1820
English colonial male wood-engraver and painter who studied in the USA and London. He was known to be generous for various causes, even though he ...
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Meredith, Louisa, b. 1812
Miniaturist, watercolourist, engraver, poet, writer and botanist. She resided in Tasmania for most of her life and exhibited in many Intercolonial Exhibitions.
Oxley, John Joseph William Molesworth, b. 1785
Sketcher, engraver (?), surveyor and explorer. Oxley's 'Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales' (London 1820) are the first published descriptions ...
Prout, John Skinner, b. 1805
Prout was a painter, lithographer, art teacher and writer. An Australian critic once described his works as 'one of those wild and scattery bits, both ...
Read, Richard Daniel, b. 1765
Richard Read (senior) was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation for possession of forged notes and arrived in Sydney on the Earl Spencer on 9 October ...
Ross, James, b. 1786
James Ross was an engraver, teacher, editor and printer. He was appointed joint government printer and editor of the Hobart Town Gazette in June 1825. ...
Rowe, George, b. 1796
George Rowe was one of the most prolific topographical printmakers in England.
Russell, Robert, b. 1808
Despite Russell's extensive work as a sketcher, amateur photographer, etcher, lithographer, carver, architect and surveyor, he is still better known for his work ethic and ...
Seymour, Robert, b. 1798
Early 19th century London cartoonist whose work satirised the Swan River settlement (Perth).
Sharpshooter, A.
Early 19th century London cartoonist whose work satirised the Swan River settlement (Perth).
Stoutshanks, S.
Early 19th century London cartoonist whose work satirised the Swan River settlement (Perth).
Swainson, William, b. 1789
Natural history artist, illustrator, lithographer, naturalist and commissary. McMillan considers that 'His botanical work is unimportant; his claim to remembrance rests upon his zoological work ...
Taylor, James, b. 1785
Military officer, James Taylor, arrived in Sydney in 1817 with the 48th Foot Regiment aboard the Matilda. Taylor produced a number of paintings and prints ...
Westall, William, b. 1781
William Westall was the appointed landscape artist on Matthew Flinders' 1801 "Investigator" expedition which was the first maritime circumnavigation of Australia.
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 ...
Wood, Eulalie
lithographer and drawing teacher, arrived at Hobart Town on 13 June 1829, and brought what was claimed at the time to be the first lithographic ...
Wood, James, b. 1802
Lithographer and public servant, son of James Boteler Wood, arrived at Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, in the Lang on 27 July 1824. After marrying ...
Sands & McDougall
Sands & McDougall was a large printing firm in 19th century Sydney. The firm employed artists to design invitations and illuminations.