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Dewis, Josiah, b. 1825
Josiah Dewis was born in 1825. He was a weaver who arrived on the 'Mary Harrison' in 1862 as did David Bird another weaver.
Dexter, William B., b. 1817
William Dexter was a painter. He arrived at Sydney in 1852. Dexter and his wife Caroline opened a 'Gallery of Arts and School of Design' ...
Dicker, Charles
Dicker was an amateur photographer who showed a collection of 24 ambrotypes at the 1861 Victorian Exhibition. The photographs were of the principal buildings in ...
Dickson, James Archibald Campbell, b. 1836
Scottish born painter, policeman, husband and father. He is known only for one work, 'Cameron's Farm, Myponga' (1866), a competent representation of contemporary rural life.
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 ...
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 ...
Dodgson, Robert, b. 1812
Robert Dodson was a professional photographer, working as a photographer in Adelaide by 1864 where he had a studio on the corner of Hindley and ...
Doig, A. E.
A professional photographer working from Whroo near McIvor in Victoria.
Doolan,
painter, contributed Interior of an Eastern Bazaar (medium unspecified) to the fourth Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts held in the studio of the sculptor Charles ...
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,
Sketcher, was awarded a 3-guinea prize for the best drawing from the round (a copy of the plaster cast, 'Dorothea') at the 1868 exhibition of ...
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 ...