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List biographies
| Version | Name | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W | Current | A colonial period newspaper illustrator who contributed to publications such as the Town and Country Journal. |
| 1 | W., A. | Current | Early 20th century illustrator, A.W. contributed illustrations for the boys weekly "Pals" for six years in Melbourne, from 1920-1926. |
| 1 | W., A. | Current | caricaturist, initialled a print published in Melbourne in 1858 of a group of dogs with human heads labelled with the names of Australian scientists: Wilson, Clarke, Hough, Blandowski, Archer and Becker. |
| 1 | W., C. | Current | Colonial period magazine illustrator who contributed to the Illustrated Sydney News in 1864. |
| 1 | W., G. G. | Current | sketcher, painted a naive watercolour of a settler's house dated 26 April 1867 and inscribed 'Main Range, nr. Toowoomba'. |
| 1 | W., H. J. | Current | Sketcher, drew a pencil and watercolour sketch of a woman and child (photograph Mitchell Library), thought to be members of the family of the Sydney solicitor Randolph Want, possibly his wife, Harriette, née Lister. |
| 1 | W., H. M. | Current | H.M.W was a sketcher. Their signed watercolour of Government House in Sydney, dated 1866, is held in the Mitchell Library at the State Library of New South Wales. |
| 1 | W., J. C. | Current | Little is known about this colonial artist except that he possessed admirable drawing skills. It is unfortunate that only one example survives of his talent. |
| 1 | W., R. | Current | Late colonial period caricaturist whose portrait of Phil May is held by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. |
| 1 | W., T. | Current | sketcher, of Aboriginal portraits from the Portland district of NSW (now Victoria) and views of Tasmania. The drawings are mainly in pencil with a few highlighted in white. |
| 1 | W., W. R. | Current | A mid 20th century commercial artist who created the cover for John Carishon's "A Tangled Skein of Smouldering Hatreds and Ambitions and Illicit Love". |
| 1 | Wade, William Richard | Current | Drawing teacher, curator and librarian, Wade was also a clergyman before his unorthodox views on baptism forced him into retirement. He is probably best known for his lectures and drawing classes. |
| 1 | Wadham, William Joseph | Current | William Wadham was a prominent figure in the Adelaide art scene of the late 1880s. He and his brother held an exhibition of works done on a visit to Kalgoorlie in 1896 that was opened by Governor Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. |
| 1 | Wagenaer, Wayne | Current | Late 20th century cartoonist, Wayne Wagenaer drew cartoons for the 1991 'Quit' campaign. |
| 1 | Wager, Rhoda | Current | jeweller, operated a successful jewellery business in Sydney from 1916 until her retirement in 1946. |
| 1 | Wagner, Conrad | Current | Painter, scene-painter and professional photographer of German origin. Always more interested in painting than photography, Wagner produced watercolours, pastels and oil paintings as well as painting over enlarged photographs. His speciality was posthumous portraits. |
| 1 | Wahl, Chris | Current | Contemporary comic book artist, Chris Wahl began his career with the sci-fi/fantasy comic 'Oblagon' in 1992. Despite only publishing three issues of 'Platinum' in 1993 Wahl won two OzCon Awards for his work including Favourite Australian Artist. |
| 1 | Wainewright, Thomas | Current | Painter, journalist and convict from a well connected family. Transported to Hobart Town in 1837. His many portraits provide pictorial documentation of personalities in Hobart Town before 1850. |
| 1 | Waite, James Clarke | Current | Waite's oil paintings now sell for respectable prices, his notoriety in large part due to his being a contemporary of the Boer War. His work provides historical insight into the climate of the time, particularly as he worked commercially as an illustrator. |
| 1 | Waite, Jo | Current | A contemporary Melbourne comic artist, illustrator and political cartoonist. Jo Waite has produced comics and cartoons for government institutions and community groups. |