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Chapman, Thomas Evans, b. 1789
Painter, art teacher, lithographer and public servant in Hobart, Tasmania. Chapman was not only one of early Tasmania's most prolific, competent and detailed sketchers but ...
Marsh, Charles, b. 1789
Colonial male watercolour artist who painted Government house a year after arriving in NSW.
Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor, b. 1790
Watercolourist and marine draughtsman. Arago was employed on Louis de Freycinet's officially-sponsored French expedition around the world aboard the Uranie in 1817-20.
Bock, Thomas, b. 1790
A first-class engraver and photographer, Thomas Bock was transported to Van Dieman's Land for assisting in an abortion. He stayed on in Australia after his ...
Glover, John, b. 1790
Named after his famous father, John Glover junior also painted Tasmanian subjects. John junior also farmed the family land while his father painted.
Hellyer, Henry, b. 1790
Watercolourist, surveyor and architect, arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1826 as architect and surveyor to the newly formed Van Diemen's Land Company. Painted watercolours ...
Wilson, Martha, b. 1790
Martha Wilson was a watercolour painter. Together with her husband and children she left London in 1838 bound for South Australia. Before their wooden house ...
Bunbury, Thomas, b. 1791
Bunbury's autobiography 'Reminiscences of a Veteran' was published in London in 1861, anonymously.
Capon, William, b. 1791
Painter, art teacher, decorator, plumber, house painter and glazier in Launceston, Tasmania.
Bailey, Mary, b. 1792
Watercolourist active in colonial Hobart in the 1850s. Mary Bailey's watercolour 'View from Sandy Bay' is held by the National Library of Australia.
Cruikshank, George, b. 1792
19th century English cartoonist who drew several cartoons with colonial Australian themes.
Devoy, Thomas, b. 1792
Thomas Devoy is best known for his portraits, some of which were exhibited at the 1849 Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts Exhibition in ...
Lette, Elizabeth, b. 1792
Portrait painter, was reported in both Launceston and Hobart Town newspapers in 1848 as a portrait painter of some ability. She spoke of becoming a ...
Mitchell, Thomas, b. 1792
Painter, surveyor and military officer. A resident of Sydney, he made topographical sketches and surveys and painted portraits.
Perry, Samuel Augustus, b. 1792
Samuel Augustus Perry was a watercolourist, surveyor and soldier. Appointed deputy surveyor-general of New South Wales, he arrived in Australia in 1829. Perry, with Captain ...
Earle, Augustus, b. 1793
Augustus Earle travelled extensively during his lifetime, producing paintings and lithographs of his travels in the Mediterranean, North & South America, the Pacific and Atlantic ...
Gilfillan, John, b. 1793
After a tumultuous childhood running away to sea, being shipwrecked and press ganged for 8 years, Gilfillan studied art and made it his career. He ...
Macleay, Frances Leonora, b. 1793
Philanthropic colonial female painter whose detailed watercolours of flower arrangements included European and Australian flora. Her art was influenced by a lifelong association wih scientific ...
Currie, Jane Eliza, b. 1794
Miniature and watercolour painter, born in England, UK. Resident of Western Australia she painted some of earliest known views taken in the area.
Marsden, Ann, b. 1794
Female colonial painter and embroiderer who taught indigenous children literacy in her Sunday school at Parramatta, while exerting considerable influence on her father, the Reverend, ...