Sketcher Emily Stuart Bowring's known and attributed pencil and watercolour drawings are mainly of places where she lived or visited. Most depict homesteads or their ...
Joshua Ebenston was a skilled cabinet-maker in colonial Brisbane. However, because furniture from his workshop was unmarked we know of the quality of his work ...
Francis Fearn engaged in a multifarious range of occupational pursuits including gold-prospecting - which unfortunately brought him no luck. He worked at various times as ...
A professional photographer, portrait painter and published author, Felton began her career working as a colour finisher in various Sydney photographic galleries. Thereafter, between photography ...
Painter, scene-painter and decorator, was born in Germany and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 where he painted theatre scenes for about four decades. Hennings's contribution ...
Sketcher, explorer, journalist, miner and politician. Hodgkinson had a varied career encompassing sailing, gold prospecting, participation in the Burke and Wills relief expedition and exploration ...
An artist and a teacher, originally from England, via New Zealand. Two watercolours were purchased by Christie's and auctioned at Sotheby's,17 November 2002.
Painter and sculptor, was convicted of larceny at Middlesex, England, in 1857 and transported to Western Australia in the Sultana, arriving on 19 August 1859. ...
Thrice married George Braithwaite Phillips was an amateur photographer who, in 1852, was appointed as a clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. In 1880 Phillips ...