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Solly, Benjamin Travers, b. 1820
A well-connected colonial official for most of his life, Solly was an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist with representation in significant collections.
Joubert, Jules François De Sales, b. 1824
Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...
Jefferson, Joseph, b. 1829
Joseph Jefferson was a landscape and scene-painter and an actor. He was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson made his stage debut when he ...
Walker, Anna Frances, b. 1830
A prolific botanical painter, Anna Frances Walker won many awards for her flower paintings, although always proudly remaining an amateur gentlewoman.
Williams, Florence Elizabeth, b. 1833
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Broinowski, Gracius Joseph, b. 1837
Peripatetic artist who produced copious landscape images and sold them off inventively (through art unions). Finally settling down in Sydney, he taught in various private ...
Piguenit, Harriet Victoria, b. 1844
Painter, was born in Van Diemen's Land, the moved to NSW in 1880. She is know primarily for her paintings of flowers and also worked ...
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Campbell, John, b. 1855
Scenic painter and decorator who worked in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. Campbell also painted views of places and buildings around Perth.
Cherry, G Rodney, b. 1856
Exhibited with the Victorian Academy of Arts, 1884. Took photographs of the artists' camp at Sirius Cove in the 1890s.
Tranthim-Fryer, John Robertson, b. 1858
Tasmanian born sculptor and art teacher. He returned from London to settle in Victoria where he became first Director of Swinburne Technical College in 1908, ...
Roth, A. Constance, b. 1859
Constance Roth, painter, cartoonist, decorative artist, art teacher and journalist, taught life drawing at Julian Ashton's in 1885. She departed Australia in 1892, travelling to ...
Barnett, H. Walter, b. 1862
A professional photographer working in Australia and Europe in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century, Barnett was arguably Australia's first world-class portrait photographer. His sitters ...
McComas, Francis, b. 1874
Tasmanian born landscape painter who later trained and worked in Sydney, NSW. McComas later migrated to California where he made his name as an artist.
Vincent, Alfred James, b. 1874
A Federation era Bulletin cartoonist and painter, based mainly in Melbourne, Alfred Vincent was the first visual artist to join the Melbourne Savage Club.
Edwell, Bernice E., b. 1880
Miniaturist, craftworker and painter of small landscapes. She was a founding Council member of the New South Wales Society of Women Painters.
Lovett, Mildred Esther, b. 1880
Painter, pastellist, lithographer, sculptor and china painter, born in Hobart Lovett succeeded Sydney Long as Julian Ashton's assistant teacher in Sydney. An influential teacher, her ...