Painter, photographer and drawing master in Hobart and Sydney in the mid to late nineteeth century. Bull arrived in Australia as a convict, having been ...
Involved with the invention of the spirometer Hutchinson researched respiratory diseases among the miners and in 1855 exhibited a daguerreotype and a collection of Aboriginal ...
A mezzotint and wood engraver, Sadd migrated to Australia in 1853 by way of North America. Most of his Victorian work, based on photographs, consists ...
Painter, worked mainly in Liverpool, England, specialising in pictures of ships. The National Library holds his oil painting of S.S. Australian (1862). Walters never came ...
Painter, music and singing teacher and minister, exhibited at the Geelong Mechanics Institute Exhibition in 1869. Upon moving to Queensland that same year, I'Erson's focus ...
Throughout his artistic life Stephen worked as a miniaturist and sketcher, offset by such occupations as public servant, geologist, barrister, politician and faith healer (it ...
Charles Archer made numerous maps and drawings of Queensland and is considered one of its major early artists. A member of the enterprising colonial Archer ...
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...
Painter, modeller and amateur photographer born in England. Resident of NSW and Victoria he was a prolific painter and 'national benefit'. He is represented in ...
Watercolourist and squatter. Resident of Tasmania, Sydney, Western Australia and Victoria. Cooper was a modest artist, bequeathing his 'book of Sketches by John Glover [q.v.]' ...
Sketcher and master mariner, as captain of various merchant vessels in Australian waters from the 1840s to the 1860s. Hall painted local landscapes and seascapes, ...
Male colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family whose only known pictures are of Victorian landscapes, despite living in Tasmania and New South Wales.
Nephew of James Cook, related to Isaac Smith, the colonial artist painted portraits and the marine. Some of his more accomplished works include two large ...
An architect, surveyor and selector, his drawings show a sharp eye for domestic detail and include humble buildings and people going about their everyday life.
oil and watercolour painter. Migrated to Victoria about 1855 and settled in Geelong. His work consisted mainly of landscapes, most of which were done in ...
Swiss landscape painter and portrait photographer, settled in Melbourne in 1864, admired by the artists from the Heidelberg area such as Tom Roberts and Arthur ...