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Martens, Conrad, b. 1801
Well-travelled (South America, South Pacific and Australasia) English colonial watercolourist, oil painter, lithographer, sketcher and landscape artist who is one of the better known 19th ...
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
I'Erson, Thomas W., b. 1812
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 ...
Archer, Charles, b. 1813
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 ...
Backler, Joseph, b. 1813
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 ...
Fairholme, George Knight Erskine, b. 1822
Described by his contemporaries as 'the most handsome man ever to come through Cunningham's Gap', the watercolourist and polymath George Fairholme had a fairytale life. ...
Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, b. 1824
Thomas Biddulph Hutton was a painter, teacher and clergyman. Queensland views attributed to him are dated 1858 and are held in Mitchell Library, State Library ...
Mason, George, b. 1827
English colonial male wood engraver and painter who taught music and set up Brisbane's first theatre. Apart from being bankrupted twice, he advertised as an ...
Lloyd, Henry Grant, b. 1830
A prolific watercolourist painter and sketcher, Lloyd is known as 'Australia's peripatetic artist'. He travelled indefatigably throughout his long life, recording many landscapes in Australia, ...
Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Henry John, b. 1832
Watercolourist and politician. In accordance with the social mores of the time, he painted only for his own pleasure and that of his family and ...
Taylor, Norman, b. 1834
With the death of his father acting as a catalyst, Norman Taylor (1834/1894) left England with his mother to arrive in Melbourne at the age ...
Scott, Eugene Montagu, b. 1835
An incredibly diverse artist who demonstrated skills in a wide array of materials and styles. After arriving in Victoria from New Zealand, Scott flirted with ...
Clark, John James, b. 1838
Watercolour painter, photographer, architect and engineer born in Liverpool, England. Resident of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia he was responsible for the ...
Austin, William
Draughtsman and painter who exhibited his watercolours in Victoria, Queensland and London. Austin witnessed the arrival of the first gold escort and depicted this event ...
Emery, William Francis
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 ...
Haig, John, b.
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 ...
Sawkins, James Gay
James Gay Sawkins was a landscape, portrait and genre painter. He was a skilful, precise draughtsman with a special interest in rock formations and other ...
Scott, Montagu
Montagu Scott arrived in Melbourne in the late 1850s and ran a photographic studio before illustrating the Melbourne Punch. He later moved to Sydney where ...