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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.
Arrowsmith, Edward
Professional photographer of Clermont & Dalby, Qld & Gulgong, NSW during the 1860s and 1870s.
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 ...
Bell, Thomas, b. 1798
After emigrating from Ireland, Thomas Bell and his family lived on the land in New South Wales. After his wife died, Bell placed an advertisement ...
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 ...
Bernays, L. A.
It is unknown if the art teacher Bernays was also a practicing artist but his facility for encouraging artistic excellence amongst his pupils was noted ...
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.
Blitz, A.
A. Blitz worked as a professional photographer in both New South Wales and Queensland in the 1860s and 1870s. He was in partnership with fellow ...
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 ...
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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.
Cardell, Edmund Charles Henry Boys
Professional photographer of the firm Cornock & Cardell, Adelaide. Also worked in South Australia and Queensland.
Chandler, Andrew
Professional photographer. Took photographs in all the eastern colonies of Australia, except Tasmania.
Charnay, Désiré, b. 1828
Professional photographer, journalist, ethnographer and collector.
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.