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David Strachan

by Strachan, David.

National retrospective touring exhibition of David Strachan's paintings and etchings. Curated by Daniel Thomas for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Because of Strachan's ...

Alder, Anthony, b. 1838
Anthony Alder was a Brisbane-based taxidermist who is also known for his paintings of Australian fauna, particularly ornithological subjects.
Bennett, William True
Emigrating from the USA, William True Bennett was a highly regarded photographer who lived and worked mostly in Queensland. The nineteenth-century equivalent to the modern ...
Bevan, Edward, b. 1854
Arriving from England in the 1870s, Edward Bevan moved to Townsville and established himself as a surveyor and later as a newspaper editor. He was ...
Bevan, Thomas
Thomas Bevan was a professional photographer in the nineteenth century who is known to have lived and practiced in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Birkett, Rowena, b. 1860
Rowena Birkett was a natural history painter who is credited with assisting naturalist and artist Silvester Diggles with the illustrations and colouring of some of ...
Boyd, William Alexander Jenyns, b. 1842
A.J. Boyd was involved in the teaching profession for a good part of his life. In 1882 his book "Old Colonials" was published and which ...
Broinowski, Gracius Joseph, b. 1837
Peripatetic artist who produced copious landscape images and sold them off inventively (through art unions). Finally settling down in Sydney, he taught in various private ...
Brown, Joseph Lyne
Renowned for his caustic wit later in life as an alderman on Cairns City Council, as a photographer Brown is best known for popularising the ...
Campbell, John, b. 1855
Scenic painter and decorator who worked in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. Campbell also painted views of places and buildings around Perth.
Cardell, Edmund Charles Henry Boys
Professional photographer of the firm Cornock & Cardell, Adelaide. Also worked in South Australia and Queensland.
Clarke, Joseph Augustine, b. 1840
Illustrator, painter, etcher, art teacher and decorator born in England. Resident of Brisbane Clarke was the first etcher in Queensland.
Fern, Matthew, b. 1831
Matthew Fern was a woodcarver of exceptional skills who flourished in Queensland during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is difficult to extract ...
Hall, Algernon
Professional photographer, worked in Victoria and Queensland taking portraits and views of towns and districts. He photographed the bushranger Daniel 'Mad Dog' Morgan lying dead ...
Hodgkinson, William Oswald, b. 1835
Sketcher, explorer, journalist, miner and politician. Hodgkinson had a varied career encompassing sailing, gold prospecting, participation in the Burke and Wills relief expedition and exploration ...
Kosvitz, Augustus John, b. 1831
Queensland-based watchmaker, jeweller and metalsmith who produced presentation pieces and jewellery in gold and silver. A former employee of Hogarth, Erichsen & Co., Kosvitz introduced ...
Leonard, John H.
Late colonial-period Adelaide, Melbourne and, possibly, Brisbane newspaper cartoonist, Leonard was the cartoonist "Leo" on the Port Adelaide News c.1877
Lloyd, Henry Grant, b. 1830
A prolific watercolourist painter and sketcher, Lloyd is known as 'Australia's peripatetic artist'. He travelled indefatigably throughout his long life, recording many landscapes in Australia, ...
Lomer, Albert
Professional photographer and colourist of Brisbane, Sydney and Queensland who worked throughout the mid to late 19th century. A one-time partner of Andrew Chandler, Lomer's ...