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Walker, Mary Augusta, b. 1856
As a portrait painter, Walker trained in Europe at institutions such as the Slade School in London and Colarossi's in Paris. She received commissions from ...
Watson, Judy, b. 1959
Watson is a Brisbane-based Waanyi artist who works across a range of mediums to explore familial, historical, political and environmental aspects of Australian Indigenous heritage ...
Webb, Mary Ballantyne, b.
Painter, was born in Tasmania and studied at the School of Art in Hobart. She won equal first prize in the Blue Gum BP Art ...
Webb, T. D.
Professional photographer, appears to have been a son of Samuel Blatchford Webber, a goldsmith of Bromley, Kent, England and a keen amateur photographer.
Wedge, John Helder, b. 1793
Sketcher and surveyor. During his survey Wedge made many sketches of the countryside and the Aboriginal people, some of which were later reproduced in James ...
Wells, Scott
Palawa painter based in Wynyard, Tasmania, whose paintings seek to combat stereotypical views of Aboriginality.
West, Vicki, b. 1960
Vicki West is a Tasmanian sculptor, weaver and installation artist who works with vines, kelp and textiles.
Weston, Henry John, b. 1874
Cartoonist, painter, commercial artist and architect. Weston was a member of many clubs and societies, and associated with many of Australia's now famous cartoonists and ...
Weston, William Pritchard, b. 1804
Elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and twice served short terms as premier. His fifteen known drawings in pencil, pen-and-ink and wash originally in ...
Wherrett, Charles, b. 1832
Professional portrait and landscape photographer working primarily in Hobart, Tasmania. He also worked in Castlemaine and Bendigo, Victoria.
Whitebeach, Terry Anne (Pravina) , b. 1948
Whitesides, Vera Lindsay, b. 1886
Described as a women of charm, Vera was a versatile artist proficient in a wide range of art and craft media. Best known in her ...
Whiting, Ada, b. 1858
Oil and watercolour painter and miniaturist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania. She was a rapid worker, painting up to three miniatures a week, landscapes, flowers ...
Wignall, D.
It is not surprising this colonial female artist painted Government house in Tasmania and exhibited it in Melbourne, as her father was a Hobart mayor ...
Williams, Florence Elizabeth, b. 1833
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Williams, John, b. 1933
Williams was a self-taught photographer with an active career beginning in the 1960s. He travelled in Europe through the late 1960s returning to Australia in ...
Williamson, C. A. H., b. 1807
Colonial male photographer whose diverse practice of producing wet-plate albumen prints, ambrotypes, alabastrine portraits and daguerreotypes seems to have existed for only two years before ...
Williamson, Elizabeth, b. 1860
Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Williamson was a frame-maker. She married Tom Roberts on 30 April 1896. Her frames were hung at the Royal Academy in London ...
Willmott, Peter, b. 1946
Willson, John Henry, b. 1822
Architect, decorator and scene painter. As city architect he designed the present facade and vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall as well as the Woolloomooloo ...