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Story, George Fordyce, b. 1800
Medical practitioner, amateur photographer and botanist who arrived in Tasmania in the late 1820s to serve as a government surgeon at various locations. Story spent ...
Strafford, George, b. 1820
Talented and highly technically proficient engraver who suffered mental illness and declined into obscurity.
Strange, Frederick, b. 1807
Shipped to Tasmania for robbing a grocery shop, Strange established himself as a portrait painter in Launceston where he also painted a number of views ...
Strawbridge, Eliza, b. 1818
Female colonial artist who conducted a school in her home and taught Edith Cook (later the prominent educationalist Edith Hubbe). Some of Eliza's finely detailed ...
Strother, Charles Henry, b. 1837
Despite his death at a young age, and with no known examples of works available, Strother has been described as 'an artist of no mean ...
Strutt, Annie
Strutt is known for her sketches and watercolours. A collection of her works are in the Van Diemen's Land Folk Museum in Hobart.
Strutt, William, b. 1825
Strutt was a productive and versatile painter and a founding member of the Victorian Society of Fine Arts. His most famous painting is undoubtedly 'Black ...
Stuart, Clarendon, b. 1833
Stuart's artistic endeavours seem to have been borne out of his position as a surveyor. Some of his plans were decorated with the places he ...
Stuart, William, b. 1826
A painter of still-life and marine subjects who arrived in Melbourne during the gold rush. Before arriving in Australia, Stuart exhibited at various London institutions. ...
Stubbs, William J.
Professional photographer, who worked for numerous photographic firms, purchasing his own, the Batchelder firm in 1868, and continuing there until 1889, when he retired.
Stutchbury, Samuel, b. 1798
Stutchbury's artistic talent saw him illustrate his many journals with pen and ink sketches and some watercolours of topographical,zoological subjects as well as sketches of ...
Stutterd, Joseph Gardner
Portrait and landscape painter, came to Tasmania from London and advertised in the Launceston Examiner on 25 September 1855 that he was prepared to undertake ...
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 ...
Swan, George Henry, b. 1833
Professional photographer, chemist and actor. Arrived in Australia as a gold-digger before settling in New Zealand where he opened the Wellington Ambrotype Portrait Gallery and ...
Synnot, Marianne, b. 1828
Colonial sketcher, wife of an Anglican clergyman. Sketched in her journal in which she also mentions watercolour works for family members and friends.
T., R. T.
Sketcher. Made the original drawing for an engraving that appeared in the 'New South Wales Sporting Magazine', 1850.
T., S.
Illustrator. Monogrammed an illustration, 'Attempted Assassination of the HRH the Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf, NSW, 1868', which was engraved on wood by Samuel Calvert.
Taciber, Carl
Professional photographer working in Melbourne around the 1850's.
Taggett,
Professional photographer, Taggett was in partnership with Peyman at Portland, Victoria, in 1859-60.
Tannett, Benjamin
Benjamin Tannett was a noted theatrical scene-painter and actor working in Melbourne and Sydney in the mid nineteenth century. In 1859 Tannett painted 'new and ...