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Adamson, James Hazell, b. 1829
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
Akers, Charles Style, b.
English colonial Royal engineer whose watercolours and drawings of Tasmanian scenery belied his frustration at having received such a far-flung posting. He later painted icebergs ...
Ball, Adam Gustavus, b. 1821
Like so many artists of the period, Ball's job as a civil engineer allowed him to travel throughout South Australia recording scenes of outback life ...
Cawthorne, William Anderson, b. 1824
Sketcher, watercolourist and schoolmaster in Adelaide, Vic. Known for his writings and artworks with a colonial focus.
Darling, Ida Amelia, b. 1846
Sketcher, watercolourist and chalk colourist, Ida Amelia Darling was a student of the School of Design, South Australian Society of Arts in the late 1860s ...
Gore, William Thomas
Arriving in South Australia, Gore became known as the district architect designing private residences, woolsheds, hotels, banks, school houses and churches.
Hack, Wilton, b. 1843
Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...
Johnson, Joseph Colin Francis, b. 1848
Late Colonial-era South Australian painter, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and politician. In 1884 he entered Parliament as Member for Onkaparinga and became Minister for Education in ...
Joubert, Jules François De Sales, b. 1824
Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...
Joyner, William George Percy, b. 1848
Nineteenth century painter, illuminator, draughtsman and agent, lived his entire life in South Australia and exhibited regularly with the South Australian Society of Arts. He ...
King, Stephen, b. 1841
An explorer and sketcher, Stephen King accompanied John McDouall Stuart on his exploration journey across Australia; he later travelled around South Australia on field surveys. ...
Korn, O.
Sketches by O. Korn were lithographed for Fourteen Views of Old Adelaide, published in 1876. May have been the architect F.O. Korn, of Sturt Street, ...
MacCormac, Andrew, b. 1826
Male colonial painter of portraits, a few landscape and genre paintings, who mainly worked in South Australia, portraying the upper classes.
McMinn, William, b. 1844
Sketcher, architect and surveyor. In 1865 McMinn was involved in a disastrous expedition to northern Australia to map the Adelaide River. To return to civilisation ...
Minchin, Richard, b. 1831
Painter, lithographer(?), draughtsman and zoo director, migrated to Adelaide from Ireland in the 1850s, won many prizes at the South Australian Society of Arts with ...
Montefiore, Eliezer, b. 1820
Sketcher, etcher, art patron, gallery director and businessman, he helped establish the New South Wales Academy of Art and the National Art Gallery of New ...
Norman, Herbert Hayes, b. 1843
A dentist, sketcher and amateur photographer. He exhibited some photographs at a South Australian exhibition in 1859. Although he spent his time working as a ...
Plush, John Saddington, b. 1808
South Australian sketcher, farmer and orchardist. The Art Gallery of South Australia holds a watercolour by Plush.
Richards, Richard Henry, b. 1856
Richard Henry Richards, sketcher, calligrapher and draughtsman, died at the age of 20. His masterpiece was considered to be a portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm of ...
Richardson, George, b. 1822
George Bouchier Richardson, sketcher, engraver, watercolourist and editor, 'regretted the necessity which compelled him to join his parents in Australia in 1854, but hoped that ...