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Irvine, John, b. 1805
As a painter and portraitist, John Irvine made a name for himself in Scotland as well as Adelaide and Dunedin. Actively involved in art societies, ...
Montefiore, Eliezer, b. 1820
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 ...
Snell, Edward, b. 1820
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 ...
Thomas, William, b. 1822
W.R. Thomas was a competent watercolourist and a number of his works survive in private homes in South Australia.
Joubert, Jules François De Sales, b. 1824
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 ...
Jones, Henry, b. 1826
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 ...
MacCormac, Andrew, b. 1826
Male colonial painter of portraits, a few landscape and genre paintings, who mainly worked in South Australia, portraying the upper classes.
Jefferson, Joseph, b. 1829
Joseph Jefferson was a landscape and scene-painter and an actor. He was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson made his stage debut when he ...
Fry, John V., b. 1831
Scene-painter and actor, worked for various theatrical companies creating sets in theatres primarily in the cities of Melbourne and Adelaide.
Stone, James Doveton, b. 1831
Landscape painter who resided in Melbourne and Adelaide from the late 1850s to the late 1880s. Stone exhibited on many occasions with the South Australian ...
Tennant, Bradley, b. 1833
Lithographer, 1800s, commissioned mainly brewers' show cards and whisky labels, but he did also lithograph all the plates in the three series of Dangerous Snakes ...
Peirce, Augustus Baker, b. 1840
Widely travelled Colonial era American-born sketcher, comic illustrator, caricaturist, painter, scene-painter, professional photographer, sailor, theatrical performer and entrepreneur.
Thwaites, Hector J., b. 1842
Thwaites was a professional photographer who lived and worked at his art in many parts of Australia.
Johnson, Joseph Colin Francis, b. 1848
Late Colonial-era South Australian painter, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and politician. In 1884 he entered Parliament as Member for Onkaparinga and became Minister for Education in ...
Essam, Arthur, b. 1850
Painter and illustrator, drover, surveyor and explorer who arrived in Victoria in 1870.
Upton, John A., b. 1850
John A. Upton was a professional painter and photographic colourist of the late 19th Century. Upton studied at the Royal Melbourne Technical College and the ...
Cavanagh, Michael F., b. 1860
Michael F. Cavanagh was born in 1860. He was an architect who was a member of the South Australian Society of Arts with whom he ...
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...
Ballard, H. B.
Ballard was a professional photographer who practiced in Beechworth, Victoria from 1868, Mount Gambier, South Australia from 1880, and later in Branxton and Singleton, New ...
Bevan, Thomas
Thomas Bevan was a professional photographer in the nineteenth century who is known to have lived and practiced in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.