A painter and coach-maker, Starnes exhibited with the South Australian Society of Arts. His enthusiasm one year lead him to show works under two names ...
Sketcher and police officer, was born in England of French parents and moved to South Australia. Sketched military pictures, scenes of the Australian landscape, criminals ...
Although seeking his fortune in the Victorian goldfields, Edward La Trobe Bateman instead drifted into work as an illustrator and landscape designer. One of his ...
Alfred Pickmore Bussell was born in 1816. He was an amateur architect, farmer and pastoralist. Bussell married Ellen Heppingstone in 1850 and became a competent ...
Sketcher, amateur photographer, modeller and surveyor throughout Victoria. Wherever he lived he became acquainted with the Aboriginal people and learned their languages.
Amateur photographer, farmer and magistrate. Resident of Western Australia his photographs of Fremantle in the late 1860s are considered to be among the best photographs ...
Fitzpatrick contributed an untitled pen-and-ink drawing to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition but is thereafter thought that he only continued to sketch as a hobby. ...
Although he trained as an optician, John Flavelle apparently had the aptitude to earn his living as a photographer, watchmaker, jeweller and general importer. Flavelle ...
A qualified architect, Gloystein designed the German and British Hospital on East Terrace, Adelaide. Gloystein also produced lithographs after his own drawings.
Professional photographer and schoolteacher, Hazelton practiced in Queensland in the mid 1850s. Later moving with his wife and children to Sydney, where he continued as ...
Painter, professional photographer, showman, author, balloonist, traveller, reporter and merchant,painted panoramas and portraits, settled at Maldon, Victoria.
John Botterill worked as a professional photographer and oil miniaturist in the mid-19th century in Victoria. In 1853 he was part of the organising committee ...
Influenced by his teacher John Skinner Prout and by Conrad Martens, Elyard favoured picturesque buildings, street scenes and landscapes. He was a colourful figure who ...
A self-confessed adventurer, Lacy 'bade adieu to Old England and sailed for the Antipodes'. As a skilled and amused observer of social foibles and appearances ...
A sketcher, art teacher and publican. He turned to teaching after an unsuccessful business venture. He taught privately, at H.M. Pike's Hobart City Drawing School, ...
The eldest of the Batchelder brothers, Perez was undoubtedly instrumental in prompting his siblings to emigrate to Australia, arriving as he did several years before ...