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Withers, Walter, b. 1854
The English born painter Walter Withers is known for his moody landscapes of the Victorian landscape around Heidelberg, Eaglemont and Creswick. In the brotherhood of ...
Wivell, Edward James
A professional photographer and dancing teacher from 1869 until 1893. Wivell also became the proprietor of Adelaide's leading commercial art gallery in the 1880s.
Wolinski, Joseph, b. 1872
painter, did a large oil painting showing NSW rising from a bed of native flora which decorated an arch erected for the Federation procession in ...
Wollaston, H.
Federation period Sydney newspaper illustrator.
Wood, Joseph
Painter, lived and worked in Victoria. He also did the watercolour 'Loder's Creek and Bridge, Southport' (1890).
Woodhouse, Frederick, b. 1820
Woodhouse became best known for painting every Melbourne Cup winner for more than thirty years, from 1861. During a long, successful and prolific career, he ...
Woodhouse, Frederick, b. 1848
Painter, painted many Melbourne Cup winners, including 'Auraria, Winner of the Melbourne Cup, 1895, with John Stevenson up, at Flemington,' 1895, oil on canvas, which ...
Woodhouse, Herbert James, b. 1858
Late colonial period Melbourne painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor, is buried in Geelong Cemetery, Victoria.
Woodward, Bernard
Art administrator, studied in London. As the inaugural director of the WA Museum and Art Gallery, which opened in stages from 1892, Woodward played a ...
Woodward, Arthur Thomas, b. 1865
Arthur Thomas Woodward was a painter and art teacher. He introduced the teaching of crafts to the School of Art and Design at the Bendigo ...
Woolcott, Charles Henry, b. 1821
Painter and public servant, was born in Exeter, England. In 1832 he accompanied his parents to Sydney, where he began to work with the City ...
Wright, James
Professional photographer, worked at Singleton, New South Wales, between 1867 and 1891.
Young, Blamire, b. 1862
Originally a mathematics teacher, the English born Blamire Young established himself as an illustrator, painter, designer, writer and art critic. An article in 'Art and ...
Ziegler, Ernest Charles Victor, b. 1862
Ernest Ziegler was a known studio photographer, based in South Australia. He began his career as a photographer’s printer at the ‘Adelaide Photographic Company’ in ...
of Cooktown, Oscar, b. 1877
'Oscar of Cooktown' is known only by the one book of drawings which was fortuitously preserved in the collection of the National Museum of Australia, ...
van Kaspelen, S. P., b. 1849
Dutch-born artist who specialised in making life-size French crayon portraits from photographs. He was active in Australia from 1880-1893.
von Stach, A. G.
Litho artist and graphic designer who painted an illuminated address sent to Queen Victoria on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
à Beckett, Constance Matilda, b. 1860
Colonial female who painted for distraction, while her family was parodied in her nephew's novels as the product of a nouveau-riche convict father, whose descendants ...
à Beckett, Edward, b. 1844
Colonial painter of landscapes who was painted in the act of painting by Emma Minne Boyd, matriarch of the influential family of artists.
à Beckett, M. E.
Colonial artist who exhibited with and sat on the council for the Royal Art Society. There is some speculation that à Beckett may be Emma ...