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Stacey, John Samuel, b. 1830
Young artist and teacher who was regularly praised in the local press but like so many others found the artistic freelance life a difficult one ...
Culley, John Ralph, b. 1831
Painter, carver, gilder and frame-maker born in Wiltshire, England. Resident of Adelaide, South Australia he was particularly fond of architectural subjects.
Fry, John V., b. 1831
Scene-painter and actor, worked for various theatrical companies creating sets in theatres primarily in the cities of Melbourne and Adelaide.
Minchin, Richard, b. 1831
Painter, lithographer(?), draughtsman and zoo director, migrated to Adelaide from Ireland in the 1850s, won many prizes at the South Australian Society of Arts with ...
Stone, James Doveton, b. 1831
Landscape painter who resided in Melbourne and Adelaide from the late 1850s to the late 1880s. Stone exhibited on many occasions with the South Australian ...
Tannert, Louis, b. 1833
A painter, who was born and educated in Germany. Not long after arriving to Australian shores he become curator of the National Gallery of South ...
De Mole, Fanny Elizabeth, b. 1835
Nineteenth-century painter and botanical illustrator. Her book titled 'Wild Flowers of South Australia' contains twenty fine hand-coloured plates.
Bentley, William Friend, b. 1836
William Bentley was said to have been too small to even carry his own painting materials he was that young when his parents sent him ...
King, Matilda, b. 1837
Described as 'One of the first ladies to paint South Australian native flowers' Tilly King was both a botanical painter and collector who had a ...
Strother, Charles Henry, b. 1837
Despite his death at a young age, and with no known examples of works available, Strother has been described as 'an artist of no mean ...
Hood, John, b. 1839
Painter and professional photographer, was born in England and arrived in Adelaide in 1863 as an indentured employee of Townsend Duryea. Later he ran his ...
Weger, Wilhelm, b. 1839
Sketcher and blacksmith of German origin. Wilhelm drew a naive watercolour of Ernst Weger's Stanley Street business, North Adelaide in 1855.
Cooper, Arthur Bevan, b. 1840
Painter and surveyor born in England. Resident of Adelaide, South Australia.
Needham, Frederick, b. 1840
A watercolourist who mainly painted the surroundings of South Australia. He exhibited several landscapes in South Australia and was commissioned in the 1880s to produce ...
Peirce, Augustus Baker, b. 1840
Widely travelled Colonial era American-born sketcher, comic illustrator, caricaturist, painter, scene-painter, professional photographer, sailor, theatrical performer and entrepreneur.
Younghusband, Eliza, b. 1840
Eliza Younghusband (c.1840-?), album compiler, was active in Adelaide, SA, in the 1850s and 60s. Her album is in the collection of the National Library ...
Hoare, William Webster, b. 1841
Painter and medical dispenser, in 1868 he joined Goyder's expedition to the Northern Territory (then part of South Australia) and painted flora, fauna and landscapes.
Hack, Wilton, b. 1843
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 ...
Benham, Amie, b. 1844
Amie Benham entered her landscape watercolours in several Adelaide exhibitions in the late 1860s/early 1870s and garnered various prizes and acclaim for her artworks.
Mason, Edward, b. 1845
English colonial wood engraver and painter who worked with his brother Frederick on numerous illustrations for a range of Sydney newspapers. He had many jobs ...