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Davis, J.
Colonial Melbourne cartoonist. Possibly the same as Sydney cartoonist J. Davis.
Davis, Mary Jane
Professional photographer, worked for the Adelaide Photographic Company from 1867 and became manager in 1880.
Davis, Thomas, b. 1840
A painter and settler, he came to Van Diemen's Land in the late 1800's.
Dawson, Patrick
Melbourne based colonial surveyor who produced photographic portraits of the Indigenous Australian cricket team before they toured England in 1867. Some were in their cricket ...
Dean, Edward Charles, b. 1832
Edward Charles Dean was born in 1832. He was designer and draughtsman who won an award at the Inter-Colonial Exhibition in Victoria 1866-67 and one ...
Deering, John W., b. 1838
Surveyor and amateur marine painter who arrived in Australia in 1855. Deering regularly exhibited his paintings with the New South Wales Academy of Art and ...
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Degotardi, John, b. 1823
Degotardi, an Austrian ex-pat, arrived in Australia in 1853 and worked in numerous printing houses in Sydney. Later in his career, he became interested in ...
Dennis, Joseph Tracton, b.
Irish-born colonial artist who began his career in Sydney painting portraits and scenes for the theatre. In later years he painted historical and religious subjects ...
Deutsch, Herman, b. 1833
A lithographer of German origin, he came to Victoria aboard the Sussex in 1857. He was quite prolific as a printmaker in Ballarat throughout the ...
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Devereux, John, b. 1810
Deveril, Herbert
A professional photographer and photolithographer, Deveril worked in Melbourne until 1873 when he moved to New Zealand permanently. He was quite prolific and worked as ...
Devoy, Thomas, b. 1792
Thomas Devoy is best known for his portraits, some of which were exhibited at the 1849 Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts Exhibition in ...
Dibdin, Robert Lowes, b. 1843
The "gentleman artist", Dibdin is considered Rockhampton's first resident painter, also an actor, an estate agent, and a gold buyer. Dibdin was the founding secretary ...
Dicker, Charles William Hamilton, b. 1855
Nineteenth-century natural history painter. He travelled widely throughout mainland Australia and Tasmania, sketching landscapes, flowers and insects.
Diederich, Edmund, b. 1854
Trained in lithography and photography in Germany, Edmund Diederich emigrated to South Australia in 1881. He worked for a short time in Adelaide before pursuing ...
Diggles, Silvester, b. 1817
Regardless of whether he was painting a seashore scene on a mutton shoulder-blade, or showing his special skill in life-like and accurate natural history illustrations, ...
Dinham, George, b. 1807
George Dinham emigrated to Tasmania around 1846, he was an amateur painter who exhibited in several major exhibitions.
Dixon, Hugh
Captain Hugh Dixon, a distinguished amateur photographer and army officer, was in India about 1864 when he produced an album of photographs of the British ...
Dixon, John Cowpland, b. 1819
John Cowpland Dixon was a photographic colourist and Anglican clergyman. He exhibited at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial and the 1879 Launceston Fine Arts exhibitions.
Dobson, Thomas, b. 1814
Dobson was a pioneer in cyclonology and invented a machine to illustrate the deviation of the compass in iron ships. Author of six books on ...