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Plush, Thomas Hall, b. 1809
Thomas Hall Plush was a photographic showman, house-painter and gilder. Plush and 'Professor' Robert Hall held a magic-lantern show in Adelaide, showing dissolving views and ...
Powell, John
Tasmanian based family who offered teaching of music, singing and drawing.
Prinsep, Elizabeth Acworth, b. 1804
Elizabeth Acworth Prinsep is best known for editing her husband's letters into Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land, published in 1833. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Purser, W.
Purser was a sketcher, he is thought to have been a visiting naval surgeon. Little is known of his work other than an unidentified watercolour.
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., A. E.
The only known work of this artist is a watercolour view of Helenus Scott's residence near Singleton, NSW. The artist seems likely to be either ...
R., C.
Early Sydney sketcher
R., G. F.
A pencil drawing entitled 'Little Susanna and her Mama' dated 1838 and held in Mitchell Library, (State Library of New South Wales, Sydney) is believed ...
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 ...
Reid, Edward
Edward Reid was a miniature painter. He is listed as working in Pitt Street, Sydney, in 1832.
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 ...
Richardson, John, b. 1818
John Richardson, painter, professional photographer and teacher, trained at the Royal Academy, London. He painted scenes from British history and literature, as well as copies ...
Riley, William Edward, b. 1807
William Edward Riley, pastoralist and sketcher, was a son of the pioneer pastoralist Alexander Riley who had come to New South Wales as a free ...
Ring,
Miss Ring, art teacher, opened a school for young ladies at Clifton House, New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land, in March 1831. She claimed that she ...
Rishworth, Richard, b. 1799
Richard Rishworth, listed in the Ballarat Directory in 1857 as artist and decorator, lived at Bakery Hill, Ballarat East, Victoria. He was also Secretary for ...
Rising, , b.
Mr Rising was a drawing teacher in Sydney during the 1830s. In 1834, he advertised that he could instruct a limited number of young gentlemen ...