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Duterrau, Benjamin, b. 1767
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Chapman, Thomas Evans, b. 1789
Painter, art teacher, lithographer and public servant in Hobart, Tasmania. Chapman was not only one of early Tasmania's most prolific, competent and detailed sketchers but ...
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Martens, Conrad, b. 1801
Well-travelled (South America, South Pacific and Australasia) English colonial watercolourist, oil painter, lithographer, sketcher and landscape artist who is one of the better known 19th ...
Gould, John, b. 1804
For an artist with no formal training and who had his beginning as a gardener and taxidermist, John Gould produced an enormous quantity of fine ...
Lauvergne, Barthélemy, b. 1805
Lauvergne was from a family with no previous naval tradition. He first arrived in Australia on board the 'Astrolabe' for its 1826/1829 voyage of the ...
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Russell, Robert, b. 1808
Despite Russell's extensive work as a sketcher, amateur photographer, etcher, lithographer, carver, architect and surveyor, he is still better known for his work ethic and ...
Schoenfeld, Frederick, b. 1810
Painter, lithographer and art teacher. In 1859-62 Schoenfeld was employed by Frederick McCoy, director of the National Museum of Victoria, to draw and lithograph specimen ...
Harvey, William Henry, b. 1811
Botanical artist, lithographer and botanist, he travelled widely and between 1834 and 1863 published illustrations of South African, North American, British and Japanese plants, mostly ...
Ligar, Charles Whybrow, b. 1811
Colonial New Zealand and Victorian sketcher, amateur photographer, lithographer, model-maker, cartographer, architect, surveyor and grazier
Shaw, George Baird, b. 1812
In order to perfect his artistic skills George Baird Shaw was sent to the Academy of Fine Arts at Trieste, Italy. He was awarded the ...
Gilbert, George, b. 1815
George Gilbert founded the first magazine in Victoria, and helped found the Melbourne debating society. He was a multi-talented artist, but was eventually declared bankrupt. ...
Gloystein, Tilman, b. 1816
A qualified architect, Gloystein designed the German and British Hospital on East Terrace, Adelaide. Gloystein also produced lithographs after his own drawings.
Ferres, John, b. 1818
A skilled sketcher and printer Ferres was appointed government printer of Victoria in 1851 and received a decoration from the French government for his printing ...
Mason, Walter, b. 1820
English colonial male wood-engraver and painter who studied in the USA and London. He was known to be generous for various causes, even though he ...
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 ...
Meryon, Charles, b. 1821
Draughtsman, etcher, sculptor and naval officer, made three brief visits to Australia between 1842 and 1846, although his subsequent career in France is far better ...
O'Brien, George, b. 1821
George O'Brien appears to be a man of many parts, watercolourist, lithographer, draughtsman, as well as architect and engineer.
Dunnett, Frank C., b. 1822
Frank C. Dunnett was a painter, lithographer and surveyor. As a chronic asthmatic he was advised to leave Britain and so in about 1856 he ...
Gilks, Edward, b. 1822
Born in London, Gilks led a tumultuous career shifting between self employment and working for the Crown Lands Department. During this time he exhibited his ...