Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Despite Russell's extensive work as a sketcher, amateur photographer, etcher, lithographer, carver, architect and surveyor, he is still better known for his work ethic and ...
Miniaturist, watercolourist, engraver, poet, writer and botanist. She resided in Tasmania for most of her life and exhibited in many Intercolonial Exhibitions.
Laishley was a natural history painter, lithographer and Congregational clergyman; a pupil of the painter and engraver Le Cocq. He was sent to New Zealand ...
Edward Hulme was a painter, lithographer, art teacher, gold-miner and farmer who came to Melbourne with his family in 1856. On arriving he was soon ...
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 ...
Lithographic artist, engraver and draughtsman, very little original work by Hamel is recorded apart from his many illuminated addresses. Hamel, as Hamel & Ferguson, illuminated ...
Elizabeth Douglass worked mainly in miniature portraits on ivory, chalk drawings, watercolour, engraving and oil colour. Her work received recognition at the Geelong Mechanics Institute, ...
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 ...
Photographer and inventor of world's first commercially viable photolithographic process, adopted by Government of Victoria in 1861. Osborne's invention proved successful in England, Germany and ...
English colonial male lithographer, watercolourist, and draughtsman. His diverse career included writing and illustrating children's books, teaching, publishing newspapers, public speaking and founding music and ...
A sketcher, photographer, lithographer, carver, printer and stationary manufacturer. Upon arriving in Ballarat, Niven purchased a lithographic press from Alfred Ronalds for £40 - said ...
Joseph Anderson Panton was a painter, etcher and police magistrate. He mapped the Yarra Valley while he was magistrate at Heidelberg. Panton Hill is named ...
Edward Roper, painter, illustrator, publisher, lithographer, writer and traveller, was inspired by Australian, New Zealand, South Sea Island and Canadian subjects as shown in the ...
Primarily a poet, McCrae kept a diary and sketched; his work was influenced by the Indigenous population at Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula. His ...
Francis Fearn engaged in a multifarious range of occupational pursuits including gold-prospecting - which unfortunately brought him no luck. He worked at various times as ...