Colonial-era Ballarat cartoonist whose work was published in the Ballarat Punch. His 1867 cartoon 'The sleep of sorrow, the dream of joy' was a parody ...
Colonial era Melbourne cartoonist, Barnes Snr was a staff artist on 'Melbourne Punch' c.1855-1860 and there is some speculation that either he or his son ...
Painter, lithographer and illustrator born in St Petersburg, Russia. Resident of Melbourne, New Zealand and England. Chevalier was a leading and somewhat flamboyant figure in ...
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...
An artist of English origin, Duckett came to Australia in the 1860's. Despite befriending Eugène Von Guérard he found Melbourne hostile and moved to Sydney, ...
Elizabeth Gray received a royal commission after presenting two vases made from black swan eggs on which she had etched 'some sketches of natural history' ...
Colonial era Danish-born scene-painter, cartoonist and soldier. Habbe's scenes painted for the Christmas pantomimes at the Opera House rivalled those of John Hennings at the ...
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 ...
Colonial-era newspaper wood engraver, he was the last of the classical European-trained wood-engravers in Melbourne. His estate was sworn at £11,280, the bulk of which ...
Colonial period Ballarat cartoonist. The artist initialled cartoons in 'Ballarat Punch', eg. 'Mr Punch does not see why the ladies should not have a smoking ...