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1 T., C. Current C. T. was a miniaturist and initialled a photographic watercolour on ivory of a portrait miniature of Mary Cowper, daughter of Commander G.B. Forster R.N., widow of Major French of the Indian Army and second wife of Archdeacon William Cowper of Sydney, dated 1885.
1 T., R. T. Current Sketcher. Made the original drawing for an engraving that appeared in the 'New South Wales Sporting Magazine', 1850.
1 T., S. Current Illustrator. Monogrammed an illustration, 'Attempted Assassination of the HRH the Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf, NSW, 1868', which was engraved on wood by Samuel Calvert.
1 Taciber, Carl Current Professional photographer working in Melbourne around the 1850's.
1 Taggett Current Professional photographer, Taggett was in partnership with Peyman at Portland, Victoria, in 1859-60.
1 Tainsh, Douglas Current Late 20th century Brisbane magazine cartoonist. Creator of the 'Cedric' swaggie series.
1 Tait, R. G. Current Colonial era Sydney [and Melbourne?] newspaper illustrator.
1 Talbot, Mary Victoria Current A painter and illustrator who has exhibited in Australia, North America and Europe. She has been living in Norway since 1966.
1 Tallett (Mr) Current Mr Tallett, a sculptor, was awarded a First Class Certificate for his 'Flowers Sculpted in Marble' at the 1861 Victorian Exhibition - the only award initially made in the 'ornamental arts' category.
1 Talma Current Photographer, was a trade name for a large photographic studio in Melbourne
1 Tandberg, Ron Current Prolific contemporary Melbourne newspaper cartoonist and poster artist. He created the much-publicised poster supporting the condom campaign in the fight against AIDS, with the slogan "Tell him if it's not on, it's not on." Has won several awards for his work.
1 Tanner, Augustus F. Current A painter and photographic colourist in Melbourne during 1860s.
1 Tanner, Edwin Russell Current Painter and engineer, won a commemorative medal for painting at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. Tanner also did preliminary work towards a MA degree in Philosophy at Monash in 1969.
1 Tanner, John Current Late 20th century cartoonist.
1 Tanner, Les Current Influential mid 20th century political cartoonist. Tanner worked as a cartoonist for the Melbourne Age for 30 years as well as contributing to a number of other publications. The controversial 1967 Bulletin issue which attacked the Victorian Government's decision to hang criminal Ronald Ryan, and which featured a cartoon by Tanner, was pulped on the orders of Sir Frank Packer.
1 Tannert, Louis Current A painter, who was born and educated in Germany. Not long after arriving to Australian shores he become curator of the National Gallery of South Australia in 1882
1 Tannett, Benjamin Current Benjamin Tannett was a noted theatrical scene-painter and actor working in Melbourne and Sydney in the mid nineteenth century. In 1859 Tannett painted 'new and beautiful scenery' for the burlesque at the Royal Victoria Theatre. It was 'acknowledged to be the greatest production that has ever been witnessed in the Colony'.
1 Tapaya, Nyuwara Current Pitjantjatjara speaker and distinguished print media and textile artist from Ernabella who also worked in acrylic on canvas. She trained at Ernabella Arts and studied dye technique in Indonesia. Her work is in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
1 Tappin, Peter Current Peter Tappin was one on the many Australian practitioners who produced a significant body of ceramics but whose career was terminated by the economic downturn in the late 1980s.
1 Tarawa, Charlie Tjungarrayi Current Because of his extensive experience with Europeans, he became the spokesman for the younger Pintupi men in the early days of the Papunya painting movement. Later he befriended Papunya Tula Artists' manager (1980-1) the late Andrew Crocker, with whom he travelled to the UK and who organised his retrospective, the first of a Papunya artist.

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