William Reay, painter, art teacher, poet and coal-miner, migrated to Australia in response to the colonial success of his painting, 'Adam and Eve Expelled from ...
Painter, illustrator, lithographer and natural history collector during the mid to late 1800s. At one point Harriet and her sister, Helena, executed almost all the ...
Painter and professional photographer, showed artworks in fourth Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts at Melbourne in 1864, and in the Ballarat Mechanics Institute Exhibition, and ...
Henry Pares Venables was a sketcher who travelled to Victoria from England in 1853 with Henry Kingsley, both lured by the goldrush. Three sketches by ...
Thomas Wright was a painter, professional photographer and prospector. According to William Moore, Wright was a pupil of the popular English landscape painter and Royal ...
Painter, carver, gilder and frame-maker born in Wiltshire, England. Resident of Adelaide, South Australia he was particularly fond of architectural subjects.
Considered by contemporary critics to be a 'poet-painter' of colonial subjects. His Turner-esque technique nevertheless came to be considered overly stylised which may explain why, ...
Daughter of Edward Dumaresq, surveyor, public servant and landowner, Amelia died an untimely death at the age of seventeen. Described as angelic, her drawings show ...
Francis Farndell was a professional photographer and storekeeper. He was older brother of Edward Farndell, also a photographer. The two are not known to have ...
Matthew Fern was a woodcarver of exceptional skills who flourished in Queensland during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is difficult to extract ...