Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Strange, Frederick, b. 1807
Shipped to Tasmania for robbing a grocery shop, Strange established himself as a portrait painter in Launceston where he also painted a number of views ...
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Macarthur, Charles, b. 1820
Colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family who drew and painted places where he lived and worked as a pastoralist and mercantile agent.
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Putland, Mary, b. 1783
Putland's father Governor William Bligh described her work as 'some little fancy drawings.' He was not so condensing when, barely a fortnight after her husband's ...
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King, Philip Gidley, b. 1758
King sailed with the First Fleet to Botany Bay in 1788. He established the settlement in Norfolk Island and later became governor of New South ...
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Blashki, Myer, b. 1871
Late colonial-era painter cartoonist who worked under a variety of pseudonyms including Miles Evergood. Blashki spent nearly 40 years living and working overseas, particularly in ...
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King, Philip Gidley, b. 1817
Philip Gidley King became friends with Charles Darwin and his illustrations were used in an edition of the Naturalist's Voyage.
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Wethered, Ned, b. 1895
Early 20th century Western Australian cartoonist, designer and illustrator.
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Slaeger, Philip
Philip Slaeger ('Sligo') was sketcher and engraver. He was convicted for an unspecified crime at Maidstone (Kent) and transported. In 1807 Slaeger arrived at Sydney. ...
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Schofield, Philip
Late 20th century cartoonist. He was drawing cartoons for the National Times.
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Rye, Peter
Peter Rye was a sketcher who also had a distinguished naval career until 1837. While he was at sea fighting the French in 1793, two ...
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Preston, Walter, b. 1777
Walter Preston was engraver and convict. In 1811 he was sentenced to death for highway robbery at the Middlesex Assizes, London but was transported to ...
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Parr, Thomas William
Thomas William Parr was a sketcher, explorer, clerk and convict. He embarked for New South Wales in 1787. Parr worked as a mineralogist on John ...
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Nuyts, Pierre, b.
Nuyts was a portrait painter whose works were highly praised. He completed portraits of Bishop W.G. Broughton, Robert Campbell, Thomas Sutcliffe and Conrad Martens.
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Mulray, Philip Edwin
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Mendoza, June
Mid 20th century portrait painter and comic book artist.
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McClelland, James
Mid 20th century Tamworth cartoonist
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Leuver,
Late 20th century Bulletin cartoonist. Leuver's work is held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.
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King, George Bartholomew Gidley, b. 1846
Sketcher George King was a member of the well-known pioneer King family - his great-grandfather had been Governor of NSW. King's only known work is ...
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Harris, William
Engraver, produced copperplate line engravings of views and events in Sydney in the 1840s and 1850s.
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Hansen, Philip, b. 1950
Taught by his mother and other older community members in South Guildford, WA. Noongar artist based in Collie whose work is in the collection of ...
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Handley,
Sketcher and merchant seaman, made the drawing from which 'A View of the Entrance to Port Philip Heads' was engraved for the Illustrated Sydney News ...
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Goldfinch, John
A sketcher who drew pencil scenes on Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand and the South Sea islands between 1842 and 1851.
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Fieldhouse, Simon, b. 1956
Fieldhouse produced a series of large and meticulously detailed watercolours of historic Australian buildings - among them the Melbourne GPO and the Elephant House at ...
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Cornell, Philip
Late 20th century black and white artist.
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Burgoyne, Philip
Late 20th century Sydney and London cartoonist and illustrator.
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