Philip Slaeger ('Sligo') was sketcher and engraver. He was convicted for an unspecified crime at Maidstone (Kent) and transported. In 1807 Slaeger arrived at Sydney. ...
With a career lasting over sixty years the Adelaide born artist Jeffrey Smart was an expatriate realist painter best known for his depiction of isolated ...
Late 19th century Sydney born painter and architect whose work was influenced greatly by East Asian modes of painting and drawing. He travelled and lived ...
Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith whose obsession with natural history put upon his son the responsibility to expand his existing collection when young Smith ...
Colonial sketcher and explorer, aged 18 when he joined a fatal expedition to the north west of Western Australia, leaving behind a series of sketches, ...
Sketcher, designer, illuminator and decorator George Frederick Smith was awarded a variety of medals for his illuminations, imitation marbling and wood graining. Smith's pen sketches ...
Colonial artist and public servant, arrived in Van Diemen's Land from Ireland. He sketched and painted and was involved with the Buckingham Volunteer Corps of ...
Relative of James Cook, he also served the navigator aboard the Endeavour in the voyage to Australia, and according to Cook particularly instrumental in making ...
Colonial artist with reputed connections to later painter James McNeil Whistler. She was an avid sketcher of Glenrock, her home and one of the first ...
Painter and commercial artist who was of the best graduates from East Sydney Technical College according to Frank Medworth, head art teacher in 1946. Most ...