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Alder, Anthony, b. 1838
Anthony Alder was a Brisbane-based taxidermist who is also known for his paintings of Australian fauna, particularly ornithological subjects.
Austin, William
Draughtsman and painter who exhibited his watercolours in Victoria, Queensland and London. Austin witnessed the arrival of the first gold escort and depicted this event ...
Backler, Joseph, b. 1813
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...
Bartley, N.
N. Bartley was an artist and/or an exhibitor at the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880. There is some speculation Bartley is the author Naham Bartley.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bruhn, H.
Records show that Bruhn was at the Brisbane Intercolonial Exhibition in 1877, it is unclear in which guise: artist and or exhibitor.
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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.
Chauncy, Auschar C., b. 1836
Portrait, landscape and transparency painter born in London. He worked in Brisbane, Rockhampton and Gympie in Queensland and 'obtained considerable celebrity as a portrait and ...
Clark, John James, b. 1838
Watercolour painter, photographer, architect and engineer born in Liverpool, England. Resident of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia he was responsible for the ...
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.
Clarke, Percy
Widely travelled Colonial era painter, sketcher and author.
Clarson, W. A., b. 1852
Painter and scene-painter, resident of Melbourne, Victoria, he exhibited paintings in the 1870s and 1880s. First Secretary of the Art Society of New South Wales, ...
D'Arcy,
Watercolourist who exhibited an original work, entitled 'The Bush' at the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition held in Sydney in 1875.
D'Arcy, E.
In 1875, Miss E. D'Arcy, of Queensland showed a watercolour, 'Geraldine' enlarged from a photograph at the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition in Sydney, NSW.
Dibdin, Robert Lowes, b. 1843
The "gentleman artist", Dibdin is considered Rockhampton's first resident painter, also an actor, an estate agent, and a gold buyer. Dibdin was the founding secretary ...
Diggles, Silvester, b. 1817
Regardless of whether he was painting a seashore scene on a mutton shoulder-blade, or showing his special skill in life-like and accurate natural history illustrations, ...
Fogg, Sarah Ann, b. 1829
Sarah Ann Fogg lived variously in Germany, Italy, South Africa and Tasmania and had many opportunities for studying the great Western works of Europe. It ...
Hirst, Charles Gordon Sebastian, b. 1826
CGS Hirst was an itinerant artist who worked in south-eastern Queensland in the decade of the 1870 and produced delightful, naïve renderings largely of farm ...