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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 ...
Docker, Ernest Brougham, b. 1839
Photographer, lawyer and Supreme Court Judge, Docker's articles on photography were published widely. He also developed an original method of dry-plate photography and of mounting ...
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Docker, Joseph, b. 1802
Photographer Joseph Docker is thought to have taken the earliest surviving calotypes in Australia. With his photographer son, they took many images of the Australian ...
Doudiet, Charles Alphonse, b. 1832
Charles Alphonse Doudiet was a sketcher, carpenter and gold digger. Born in Switzerland, he arrived at Port Phillip in 1852. Christie's Australia sold Doudiet's sketchbook ...
Douglas,
Mr Douglas was a scene painter. In 1855 and 1866 he worked for Sydney's new Prince of Wales Theatre. In 1869 Douglas worked for the ...
Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Henry John, b. 1832
Watercolourist and politician. In accordance with the social mores of the time, he painted only for his own pleasure and that of his family and ...
Douglass, Alfred D., b. 1820
Alfred D. Douglass was a sketcher, businessman and newspaper proprietor. He came from Scotland to Van Diemen's Land in 1835. Douglass was a proprietor of ...
Douglass, Elizabeth, b. 1825
Elizabeth Douglass worked mainly in miniature portraits on ivory, chalk drawings, watercolour, engraving and oil colour. Her work received recognition at the Geelong Mechanics Institute, ...
Dove, William Woodman, b. 1832
Colonial sketcher and clergyman, who was 'very active' while stationed at Cassilis and Muswellbrook and 'most useful in church decorations'. Inspired by the Illustrated London ...
Dowling, Robert Hawker, b. 1827
With subjects ranging from Aboriginal to Bibical and orientalist scenes, Dowling was the first to establish the pattern of expatriate exploitation of home patronage, which ...
Dowling, William Paul, b. 1824
William Paul Dowling was a painter, engraver and photographer. In 1849 he was transported to Hobart Town as a political prisoner. Dowling worked in partnership ...
Downing, Amos
Amos Downing was an artist living in Victoria. He was listed in the Melbourne Directory in 1851.
Doyle, J. T.
Watercolourist, compiled an album entitled 'J.T. Doyle's Sketches in Australia' consisting of forty-five watercolours dating from about 1854 to 1863 which depict landscape views and ...
Drake, F.
F. Drake was an illuminator. Drake engrossed and illuminated a memorial presented to Samuel Moses by his congregation at the Hobart Town Synagogue, Tasmania (1858). ...
Drayton, Joseph
Natural history painter and engraver whose sketches were in a number of natural history volumes, travelled to Sydney in 1839 under Charles Wilkes in the ...
Drury, Byron, b.
Naval officer and sketcher. Served on the Alligator when the ship was at Port Essington (Northern Territory) in 1838-1839. Later drew a pen-and-ink view, 'Sydney ...
Du, J.
Sketcher, put this name to a pencil and white drawing, 'Toll Bar Melbourne and Princes Bridge in the Distance' (c.1854).
Du Cane, Edmund Frederick, b. 1830
Engaged as a Royal Engineer to superintend the works for the proposed convict establishment in Western Australia. Du Cane's sketches and paintings of exploratory expeditions, ...
Duke, Anne, b.
Anne Duke was one of the women who sewed the miners' flag used in the Eureka Stockade. She was nine months pregnant at the time ...
Duke, William Charles, b. 1815
Painter of Irish origin, Duke produced numerous portraits, landscapes and lithographs. He also worked extensively as a scenery painter for various theatrical companies in Australia ...