A prominent society photographer, teacher to Queen Victoria and inventor of the 'Biotype'. His talent for portraiture was such 'you could almost speak to' his ...
Henry Deering was a scenic artist and theatrical producer. In 1851 he was credited with painting the moving diorama introduced into the pantomime he produced ...
Colonial artist, arrived in Australia as a public servant but was dismissed for insubordination, which he sought to clear himself of by letters of petition, ...
Irish-born colonial artist who began his career in Sydney painting portraits and scenes for the theatre. In later years he painted historical and religious subjects ...
Watercolourist, compiled an album entitled 'J.T. Doyle's Sketches in Australia' consisting of forty-five watercolours dating from about 1854 to 1863 which depict landscape views and ...
A portrait painter and miniaturist, J. B. East's best known work is his oil portrait of Jamaican boatman, Billy Blue. His lively watercolours of Europeans ...
Though most of Emery's paintings were of horses he also exhibited an occasional landscape or fruit picture. He worked mainly in Melbourne, moving to Queensland ...
An established landscape and genre painter in England, Ewart painted many prominent citizens of Sydney and Bathurst and advertised himself as a painter who could ...
Charles Henry Fairland was a painter, lithographer, illustrator and drawing master. He became town clerk of Hunters Hill municipality on its inception in 1861. His ...
Frederick Fowler contributed Irish landscapes to the exhibitions of 1853 and 1862 and this suggests that he came from Ireland to Australia. The time spent ...
portrait painter, professional photographer and civil servant, in 1858 he started a photography and portrait painting business in Warwick, Qld. A fourth generation Haig photographic ...
Watercolour painter, very little is known about his background. During the 1860s to 1880s he painted Sydney scenes and paintings signed F. Halstead and G.F.H ...
Painter, sketcher, signwriter and draughtsman, Harford accompanied Samuel Stutchbury and William Curtis on their geological and mineralogical survey of New South Wales in 1850-54.
Sketcher, drew scenes of Australia and New Zealand in the 1850s and 1860s that were reproduced in the Illustrated London News. Despite the pictorial evidence, ...