Francis Guillemard Simpkinson was a painter, diarist and naval officer. In 1845 at the Hobart Town Art Exhibition, (the first major fine arts exhibition in ...
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with ...
Barcroft Capel Boake was one of the most well-known and successful professional photographers of the second half of the 19th century but beset by economic ...
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...
Samuel Edmonds was a landscape painter who exhibited some of his work at Victorian Artists' Society exhibitions during the first decade of the twentieth century. ...
Professional photographer, was born in Germany. Known as the first person to successful attempt the representation of the 'native blacks truthfully as well as artistically'. ...
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 ...
Training in Melbourne in the 1860s and Edinburgh in the 1870s White's landscape, portrait and genre subject paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy and ...
Academic symbolist and plein-air painter, Loureiro came to Melbourne after studying and living in Portugal, Rome and Paris. In Australia he established an association with ...
French born artist and theatre designer who painted various Sydney street scenes and documented interior views of exhibition spaces at the Art Gallery of New ...
Architect credited with designs for the Art Gallery, the Public Library, Fremantle Technical School and, with John Grainger, Parliament House among many other places.
One of Australia's most iconic painters, Tom Roberts was an early champion of plein-air painting and together with Frederick McCubbin, Roberts helped establish the famous ...
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, ...