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Haviland, Edwin, b. 1823
Professional photographer, botanist and businessman, he ran a photographic business in Sydney, 1857-1859. He specialised in coloured collodiotype portraits which resembled painted miniatures on ivory.
Hawkins, Jeffrey
Professional photographer, was listed as a daguerrean and photographic artist in the Melbourne Directory from 1858 to 1875. He may also be the 'W.' Hawkins ...
Hawthorn, George
Sketcher and port master, lived in Hobart Town from youth. He was active in the local art scene giving lectures and public demonstrations in the ...
Haydon, George Henry, b. 1822
Illustrator, cartoonist and writer, spent five years in Victoria, 1840-45. He left a pictorial record, sometimes comic, of the early settlement and Aboriginal life in ...
Hazelton, Alfred William, b. 1816
Professional photographer and schoolteacher, Hazelton practiced in Queensland in the mid 1850s. Later moving with his wife and children to Sydney, where he continued as ...
Heath,
Professional photographer, advertised 'photographic portraits' in the Yass Courier (NSW) in 1858.
Helm, Maurice, b. 1809
Lithographer and engraver, was a native of Germany who arrived in Melbourne in April 1849 and set up a short-lived engraving and lithography business. His ...
Henderson,
Portraitist, he practised briefly in Melbourne in 1853.
Henderson, Edmund Yeamans Walcott, b. 1821
Watercolour painter, architect, engineer, administrator and police commissioner, between 1850 and 1863 he worked in Fremantle WA where he designed some significant buildings. He also ...
Henderson, Euphemia Ethel Elizabeth Spencer Middleton, b. 1822
Painter, from 1842 to the 1860s she lived on Phillip Island, Victoria where she painted botanical watercolours. At the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition Henderson's oil ...
Henderson, John Black, b. 1827
Late colonial-era painter, sketcher, comic illustrator, amateur photographer and surveyor. A founding member of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870, Henderson showed six landscapes ...
Henning, Rachel Biddulph, b. 1826
Sketcher and letter-writer, she is primarily known for her letters which describe rural life in Australia, particularly that on her brother's Queensland property, in the ...
Hennings, John, b. 1835
Painter, scene-painter and decorator, was born in Germany and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 where he painted theatre scenes for about four decades. Hennings's contribution ...
Henslowe, Francis Boyle, b.
Sketcher and lithographer, was born in Hobart Town. Henslowe lithographed and printed the covers of the sheet music composed by his father which were exhibited ...
Hentschel, Theodore Paul, b. 1821
Engraver, lithographer and grocer, Hentschel arrived in Melbourne in 1849 where he ran engraving and lithography businesses until 1854. No examples of his work seem ...
Herber,
Professional photographer, was in partnership with Pein in Sydney, in 1856.
Herrgott, Josef Albert Franz David, b. 1823
Colonial South Australian sketcher and naturalist. In 1858 he was artist and collector on the Benjamin Herschel Babbage expedition to Lake Torrens.
Hetzer, Thekla
Professional photographer and music teacher, was one of the first women photographers to work in Australia. She assisted her husband William Hetzer in his studio ...
Hetzer, William
Professional photographer, was a German who ran a studio with his wife, Thekla in Sydney from 1850 to 1867. He was engaged by the New ...
Hill, Charles, b. 1824
Painter, engraver and teacher, in, England and arrived in Adelaide in 1854 where he became very influential in the local art scene. Hill specialised in ...