An architect, surveyor and selector, his drawings show a sharp eye for domestic detail and include humble buildings and people going about their everyday life.
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 ...
Professional photographer, taught by brother Charles Percy Pickering. A travelling photographer specialised in photographing tombstones in rural NSW, 1870s-1880s. He is said to have photographed ...
Harry Stockdale was sketcher, collector, explorer and horseman who also contributed articles on Aborigines and other subjects to various periodicals in the late 1800s.
Stephen Nixon was primarily a portrait photographer, based in South Australia during the nineteenth century. For some time he was considered Kapunda’s resident photographer, where ...
Anthony Fouchard was born in 1843. Fouchard was, according to his advertisements, a gold and silversmith, practical watch and clockmaker, and working jeweller. He arrived ...
Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...
Painter, botanical artist and the wife of John Forrest who was elected Premier of Western Australia in 1890. Margaret was also politically active and a ...
Male colonial photographer who travelled to Europe and rural WA, after settling in Fremantle, and established a reputable business in Perth on his return.
Late 19th century London and Perth painter and wood engraver. While in London Symmons engraved drawings by Henry French & Fred Barnard - "the Dickens ...
Phillip William Goatcher, a theatrical scene painter, was born in England in 1851, trained in 1867 as an apprentice scene painter in Melbourne, where he ...
May Creeth was born in 1854. She was a painter, china painter, teacher, photographer and pyrographer. Creeth trained in art at the South Kensington Schools ...