Kapunda, South Australia's first resident general practitioner, Blood was also a keen amateur photographer who was said to submit most of his friends to the ...
George Hamilton was a painter, illustrator, lithographer, explorer, author and policeman. He exhibited with the South Australian Society of Arts. Hamilton died in 1883.
A miniature painter and engraver, W.W. Thwaites (1814-1888)and sons established themselves as professional photographers in West and South Australia in the 1860s. However, despite such ...
Female colonial artist who conducted a school in her home and taught Edith Cook (later the prominent educationalist Edith Hubbe). Some of Eliza's finely detailed ...
Sketcher, etcher, art patron, gallery director and businessman, he helped establish the New South Wales Academy of Art and the National Art Gallery of New ...
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with ...
Like so many artists of the period, Ball's job as a civil engineer allowed him to travel throughout South Australia recording scenes of outback life ...
A watercolour and natural history painter, many of Angas's sketches from his travels as a naturalist in the mid 1800s became the basis for lithographic ...
Starting their business with a single lithographic press, the partnership Penman & Galbraith became South Australia's longest-running and most important art-printing establishment.
David Beveridge Adamson emigrated to South Australia in 1839. He designed and produced toys, mechanical appliances and scientific instruments, the latter of which he used ...
Pastoralist and member of parliament, John Howard Angas was also a natural history painter. He painted birds, insects, and flowers, but no surviving work is ...
Painter, engraver and teacher, in, England and arrived in Adelaide in 1854 where he became very influential in the local art scene. Hill specialised in ...
Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...
Late colonial-era Adelaide painter and cartoonist. Most of her art work appears to have been small in scale with numerous flower studies painted on green ...
Colonial photographer and master mariner, awarded a silver medal for his photographs at the Calcutta International Exhibition in 1885. His photographic career included some unusual ...
Nineteenth-century professional photographer, watchmaker and jeweller, he worked in Melbourne and Adelaide, producing pannotypes (photographs on leather to send through the post) and full-length carte-de-visite ...