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Porcher, Edwin Augustus
Edwin Augustus Porcher was a sketcher and naval officer. He was scientific observer and unofficial artist aboard the Royal Navy's corvette Fly which, with the ...
Pounds, Caroline
Pounds, Caroline (née Elam) was a watercolourist. She made studies of birds and plants in Australia and New Guinea. They are thought to have been ...
Powning,
Powning was a painter. In 1848 at the Exhibition of Colonial Artists (Adelaide) Powning showed a study, Barnaby Rudge (from Charles Dickens's novel).
Price, Charles, b. 1807
Charles Price was known as a painter, amateur photographer, architect and Independent (Congregational) clergyman. He designed and erected, at his own expense, the brick Congregational ...
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 ...
Prout, Maria Heathilla, b. 1807
On seeing Prout perform, one critic found it gratifying and astonishing 'to find in this remote part of the British dominions, talents in the arts ...
Purkis, James, b. 1783
Purkis was primarily a merchant but he worked in the arts as a scene-painter. In 1839 he painted the scenery for 'Love la Militaire', said ...
Putland, Mary, b. 1783
Putland's father Governor William Bligh described her work as 'some little fancy drawings.' He was not so condensing when, barely a fortnight after her husband's ...
Pâris, François-Edmond, b. 1806
François-Edmond Pâris was a painter, draughtsman, scholar and naval officer. He was born in Paris in 1806. Pâris entered the navy in 1820 and within ...
R., C.
Early Sydney sketcher
R., C. J. W.
C.J.W.R. was a watercolourist whose only known work features Melbourne circa 1841. There is suspicions that it may not have been painted in 1841 or ...
R., J.
The subject, style and date of the work initialled J.R. all suggest that the artist was John Rae.
Rae, John, b. 1813
"I am anxious to make some of you amateurs like myself" was Rae's plea to students at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in 1855. ...
Random,
Mr Random was a scene painter. In the 1840s he was living at Maitland, New South Wales. Random was a member of the local amateur ...
Read, Charles Rudston, b. 1818
Charles Rudston Read first visited Australia as a young naval officer in 1838. His career enabled him to travel to China, Brazil, the Pacific Islands ...
Read, J. T.
J. T. Read's career as a professional artist is questionable because his paintings are stylistically indistinguishable from portraits by the artist Richard Read Junior.
Read, Richard Daniel, b. 1796
Richard Read junior was a miniature, portrait and historical painter. Although by no means the only portrait painter in the colony, Read's career was one ...
Rennie, , b.
Miss Rennie arrived in Sydney in 1840. She opened a day school for young ladies and taught music, drawing, ornamental work, and languages. Students also ...
Renno, John
John Renno worked as a scene-painter and theatre mechanist at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Princess's and the Surrey Theatre, London. In 1852 he migrated ...
Reveley, Henry Willey, b. 1788
English born Henry Willey Reveley, sketcher, architect and civil engineer, was responsible for the design and supervision of public works at Fremantle, Perth and outlying ...