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Barney, George, b. 1792
George Barney was an English military officer who rose through the ranks of the Royal Engineers to become one of the most regarded and pioneering ...
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Evans, George William, b. 1780
Although primarily known as an explorer and surveyor, G.W. Evans's artistic efforts have considerable merit. His topographical vistas of Hobart Town, Parramatta and Sydney Harbour ...
Florance, Thomas, b. 1785
A sketcher and surveyor who served in the American War of 1812 and lived for many years in New Zealand. Most of his drawings would ...
Jorgenson, Jorgen, b. 1780
Colonial-era sketcher, painter, naval officer, and author, among other things, he lived in Van Diemen's Land variously as a convict and a free man. He ...
King, Phillip Parker, b. 1791
Phillip Parker King,an explorer, surveyor and sketcher, was commander of an expedition to explore the coast of New Holland. His journals, sketches and charts appeared ...
L., J.
J.L. initialled the four watercolours of Norfolk Island in Robert Jones's manuscript journal. However elements of the illustrations are not historically correct for the time ...
Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre, b. 1778
Natural history artist. Leseur travelled to Australia with a French expedition at the beginning of the nineteenth century, his drawings and etchings of local flora ...
Light, William, b. 1786
A former director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, he declared: 'there is little doubt that had Colonel Light decided to devote his genius ...
Macquarie, Elizabeth Henrietta, b. 1778
Colonial first lady: female designer of gardens and architecture whose paintings and sketches influenced major works in the fledgling colony of New South Wales. She ...
Marsden, Ann, b. 1794
Female colonial painter and embroiderer who taught indigenous children literacy in her Sunday school at Parramatta, while exerting considerable influence on her father, the Reverend, ...
Marsden, Jane, b. 1808
English female colonial sketcher who drew pictures of where she lived in Parramatta, and recorded her voyage to England in her journal. She posed for ...
Marsden, Mary Ellen, b. 1806
Female colonial poet, watercolourist and sketcher who posed for another painter in the act of painting flowers, although no floral still-lifes by her have been ...
Putland, Mary, b. 1783
Putland's father Governor William Bligh described her work as 'some little fancy drawings.' He was not so condensing when, barely a fortnight after her husband's ...
T., S.
Illustrator. Monogrammed an illustration, 'Attempted Assassination of the HRH the Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf, NSW, 1868', which was engraved on wood by Samuel Calvert.
Tobin, George, b. 1768
Naval officer and natural history painter who sketched on various voyages, including Captain William Bligh's voyage to Van Diemen's Land. Tobin became the first European ...
Tompson, Charles, b. 1784
English born landholder and farmer whose two recorded sketches of himself and his wife are kept in possession of the family.
Westall, William, b. 1781
William Westall was the appointed landscape artist on Matthew Flinders' 1801 "Investigator" expedition which was the first maritime circumnavigation of Australia.