James Archer kept a small sketchbook (c.1861-63) that consists mainly of drawings of people, most depicted in profile, including his brother, fellow artist Alexander Archer.
Sponsored by the London Female Middle Class Emigration Society, Emily Barlow arrived in Melbourne in 1862 with her sister Nancy with the intention of establishing ...
John Valentine Behl emigrated from Germany to New South Wales in about 1857 and worked briefly as a professional photographer in Elizabeth Street, Sydney - ...
Burkitt was a prolific watercolourist who made studies of the various Victorian districts in which he was stationed as a telegraph operator. His grandson donated ...
Portrait, landscape and transparency painter born in London. He worked in Brisbane, Rockhampton and Gympie in Queensland and 'obtained considerable celebrity as a portrait and ...
Scottish born painter, policeman, husband and father. He is known only for one work, 'Cameron's Farm, Myponga' (1866), a competent representation of contemporary rural life.
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 ...