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List biographies
| Version | Name | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L., D. G. | Current | Drawing teacher, advertised in Sydney in August 1844 that she wished 'to engage with a gentleman's family, either as resident or visiting governess. She is competent to instruct in French, music, drawing, painting and every branch of an accomplished education. Letters addressed, post paid, to D.G.L., Herald Office'. |
| 1 | L., J. | Current | 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 that this J.L. was on Norfolk Island. |
| 1 | L., S. T. J. S. | Current | This artist's sketch, dated March 1824, seems to be a work in a series of copies and sketches after previous artists. |
| 1 | La Gerche, Geoff | Current | Late 20th century painter, writer and graphic artist |
| 1 | La Mert, Bram | Current | La Mert was a professional photographer. He claimed to have been a pupil of 'Dr. Diamond, Photographer to the Royal Family and Editor of the Photographic Journal'. |
| 1 | La Moile, F. | Current | professional photographer and painter(?), opened a 'Public Gallery' in Yarra Street, Geelong, Victoria, in 1856 with an exhibition of 'Daguerreotypes, Paintings, Objects of Art and Science', hoping to entice visitors to have a daguerreotype taken. |
| 1 | La Touanne, Edmond Bigot De | Current | La Touanne was a member of a French expedition sent to report on the defence capabilities of the colony. To the residents of Sydney, however, La Touanne's work seemed more an appropriation of artistic copyright than a threat to British sovereignty. |
| 1 | La Trobe, Charles Joseph | Current | A gifted sketcher, colonial administrator and travel writer, he always recorded his travels, and the illustrations in at least two of his four published travel books were based on his sketchbooks. La Trobe was responsible for the development of the Port Phillip area, from a ragged unofficial settlement of 6,000 Europeans to a self-governing colony with a white population of over 80,000. |
| 1 | Labatt, C. A. | Current | Sketcher, was only seven and a half years old in 1862 when his father exhibited his pencil view of the sea in the sixth annual exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide. |
| 1 | Labillardière, Jacques-Julien Houtou De | Current | A naturalist and collector, he came to Australia aboard La Recherche on a voyage to the Pacific with L'Espérance in 1791. |
| 1 | Lacombe (Monsieur) | Current | Professional photographer, was working at Sydney in 1856. This is presumably the Monsieur Lacombe described as 'an amateur from Lyons' who exhibited photographs at the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition. |
| 1 | Lacy, George | Current | A self-confessed adventurer, Lacy 'bade adieu to Old England and sailed for the Antipodes'. As a skilled and amused observer of social foibles and appearances Lacy may be compared with his contemporary S.T. Gill. |
| 1 | Laeubli, Annis | Current | Annis Laeubli was born around 1912 and trained as a sculptor at East Sydney Technical College under Rayner Hoff. |
| 1 | Lahey, Vida | Current | A traditional painter specializing in still life and landscape subjects. She was a great contributor to the art scene in Queensland and was very involved with the Queensland Art Gallery. |
| 1 | Lahm, Hardtmuth | Current | Mid 20th century Sydney cartoonist and illustrator, an "incomprehensible wild wee man from Estonia", creator of 'Man' magazine's Snifter |
| 1 | Laidlaw, Ivy | Current | Pitjantjatjara painter, sculptor, weaver and story teller based in Irrunytju who has important women's business knowledge and responsibilities. |
| 1 | Laidlaw, Thomas | Current | Photographer, worked in Sydney at the turn of the century, often with Elizabeth Harris and sometimes independently. |
| 1 | Laidler, Margaret | Current | Sketcher, signed a watercolour of Newcastle (NSW) in about 1870 entitled 'View of the Infirmary, Gaol, Harbour Master's Residence etc. Taken on the Spot'. It was developed into an oil painting. |
| 1 | Laifoo, Joey | Current | Lino cut printer, Joey Laifoo from Badu Island in the Torres Strait was born in 1978 was a featured artist in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition "Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia". |
| 1 | Laifoo, Stanley | Current | Stanley Laifoo paints the stories and imagery of his working life as a cray fisherman diving in the waters of the Torres Strait. |