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Short, William Wackenbarth, b. 1833
William Wackenbarth Short was a painter and professional photographer. He came to Melbourne in 1852. Short applied for the position of artist on the ill-fated ...
Simpkinson, Francis, b. 1819
Francis Guillemard Simpkinson was a painter, diarist and naval officer. In 1845 at the Hobart Town Art Exhibition, (the first major fine arts exhibition in ...
Simpson, William Butler
William Butler Simpson was a sketcher and surveyor. He undertook surveying work in the counties of Bathurst, Wellington, Gordon, Bligh, Lincoln and Ashburton between 1861 ...
Simpson, H.C., b. 1879
H.C. Simpson could be described as a minor watercolourist yet his images of the Gold Coast appealed to contemporary purchasers as much as present day ...
Small, Jabez William, b. 1840
Photographer and photographic dealer Jabez Small exhibited English and foreign, coloured and plain photographs, and ran photographic studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide between ...
Smedley, John, b. 1841
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 ...
Smedley, William Thomas, b. 1858
American born painter and illustrator, trained in the Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens. Worked briefly on the Picturesque Atlas and in ...
Snell, Edward, b. 1820
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with ...
Snook, Frank Herbert, b. 1866
Frank Herbert Snook was a cabinetmaker and builder.
Solly, Benjamin Travers, b. 1820
A well-connected colonial official for most of his life, Solly was an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist with representation in significant collections.
Solomon, Saul, b. 1836
Portrait painter, professional photographer, businessman, civic leader and politician. The La Trobe Library has a number of albums of his work and the Mortlock Library ...
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Sommer, John Conrad, b. 1828
Continental photographer, house painter and drawing teacher, who liked to keep up to date with the latest fashions in photography for commercial purposes.
Sommers, John E., b. 1846
John (Jack) Sommers was a painter and illustrator with association with the Heidelberg School artists in Melbourne.
Souter, David Henry, b. 1862
Popular Scottish-born Federation period Sydney painter, cartoonist, poet and journalist, noted for his stylish cat cartoons.
Southern, Clara, b. 1860
Clara Southern, painter, studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's Art Schools in 1883-87 under Frederick McCubbin and George Folingsby. Fellow students included Josephine Muntz-Adams, ...
Spence, Percy, b. 1868
Federation-era Sydney painter, illustrator and Bulletin cartoonist. Spence was born in Sydney but raised in Fiji before spending a number of years in England, living, ...
Spong, Walter Brookes, b. 1851
Spong first worked in Australia with Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin painting theatrical backdrops. After eleven years in the country, working primarily in ...
Spooner, Horace H., b.
Late colonial period Sydney illustrator, journalist, critic and probably cartoonist who died of typhoid while covering the Boer War.
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Federation period Melbourne cartoonist
Steffanoni, Sarah Ann, b. 1844
Sarah Ann Steffanoni was a gold bullion embroiderer, born in Warwick, England, who moved with her family, along with the Fairfax family to Sydney, Australia ...