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Stephen, George, b. 1812
Throughout his artistic life Stephen worked as a miniaturist and sketcher, offset by such occupations as public servant, geologist, barrister, politician and faith healer (it ...
Stevens, George
Painter and photographer(?), exhibited twenty-two still-life paintings at the Royal Academy, London. Despite glowing reviews, Stevens appears to have had very little success in selling ...
Stevens, Meshach, b. 1811
Meshach Stevens was a convict, arriving in Australia aboard the Argyle in 1831. His only known art work is an oil painting showing an Arctic ...
Stieglitz, Emma von, b. 1807
Painted mainly domestic scenes, von Stieglitz also painted portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal men and women. The latter were regarded as inferior because they were colonial ...
Stokes, John, b. 1811
John Lort Stokes was a sketcher, surveyor, explorer and naval officer. In 1837-43 he took part in the survey of the coastline of northern Australia. ...
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 ...
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, James, b. 1802
Natural history painter and medical practitioner James Stuart was born in Ireland circa 1802. Stuart arrived in Australia in 1834.
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. ...
Sturt, Charles, b. 1795
Despite his reputation as an explorer, Charles Sturt was also a keen sketcher who drew early admiration from the Duke of Wellington, whose portrait Sturt ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sweatman, John, b. 1825
While serving as a ship's clerk on board the HMS Bramble, Sweatman kept a journal illustrated with a number of engravings or original watercolours attributed ...
Sylke, Ann, b. 1805
Colonial sketcher and governess, who apparently made many beautiful drawings in her time at Launceston, Van Diemen's Land. She was threatened with legal proceedings when ...
Synnot, Walter, b. 1773
Colonial army officer, amateur painter of natural history paintings, watercolour scenes and at least one portrait. Known works were produced during his time living in ...
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.
Taylor, Alfred H., b. 1810
Painter who arrived in Australia from Britain in 1871, and had a large body of work produced both in London and Sydney.
Taylor, Charles
English marine painter who specialised in the subject of ships. While painting and exhibiting extensively in London, a number of works were exhibited in South ...
Taylor, James Edward, b. 1794
Painter, farmer and once a toll-gate keeper, James Edward Taylor migrated with family in 1849 from Plymouth, England, and arrived in South Australia. Lived chiefly ...