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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 ...
Simpkinson, Francis, b. 1819
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 ...
Snell, Edward, b. 1820
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 ...
Loureiro, Arthur Jose De Souza, b. 1853
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 ...
Roberts, Tom, b. 1856
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 ...
Carew-Smyth, P. M., b. 1860
Artist and educationalist, Carew-Smyth arrived in Australia in 1891.
Young, Blamire, b. 1862
Originally a mathematics teacher, the English born Blamire Young established himself as an illustrator, painter, designer, writer and art critic. An article in 'Art and ...
Minns, B.E., b. 1863
B.E. Minns was introduced to art by the young Charles Conder, with whom he shared rooms in the 1880s. He soon developed a successful career ...
Beecroft, Herbert, b. 1864
Widely printed early 20th century Sydney painter, miniaturist, postcard artist and theatrical lightning sketch artist and lecturer.
Annear, Harold Desbrowe, b. 1865
Born in 1865, Harold Desbrowe-Annear was an architect and teacher of drawing. His drawings for the Victorian War Memorial were illustrated in 'Art and Australia' ...
Cohen, Morris E., b. 1866
Federation era Victorian caricaturist, illustrator and pastellist.
Colclough, Edward, b. 1866
Colclough's work focused on Brisbane and its environs and has a significance in documenting the development of the city. His most important contribution was his ...
Watkins, John Samuel, b. 1866
John Samuel Watkins (1866-1942) was an English born portrait painter. He is best known for operating a popular Sydney based art school during the early ...
Streeton, Arthur, b. 1867
A member of the Heidelberg School and part of the famous '9 x 5' Impressions Exhibition in Melbourne, Arthur Streeton spent a number of years ...
Spence, Percy, b. 1868
Federation-era Sydney painter, illustrator and Bulletin cartoonist. Spence was born in Sydney but raised in Fiji before spending a number of years in England, living, ...
Coates, George, b. 1869
A contemporary of Charles Conder and Margaret Preston, painter George Coates ran a drawing studio in Melbourne before leaving for Europe and further study in ...
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Harcourt, Clewin, b. 1870
Clewin Harcourt had a successful early career as an artist, both in Australia and in Europe. In his later years he lived a life of ...
Nuttall, Charles, b. 1872
Federation era Melbourne painter, cartoonist, illustrator, etcher and journalist. Nuttall was colour-blind, so specialised in black and white work and monochrome paintings from which his ...
Salvana, J., b. 1873
J. Salvana was a painter. At a Smoke Night for the Art Society of NSW in September 1897, it was reported, "Messrs A.R. Coffey, Perry, ...
Goodhart, Joseph, b. 1875
Exhibited his etchings at the Paris Salon only two years after he adopted the medium. He also sketched extensively in Tasmania, aiming to record historical ...