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Centenary of Brisbane painting from savages to skyscrapers 1828-1928 in Seven Wonders exhibition,

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Broinowski, Gracius Joseph, b. 1837
Peripatetic artist who produced copious landscape images and sold them off inventively (through art unions). Finally settling down in Sydney, he taught in various private ...
Boyd, William Alexander Jenyns, b. 1842
A.J. Boyd was involved in the teaching profession for a good part of his life. In 1882 his book "Old Colonials" was published and which ...
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Field, Margaret Ann, b. 1842
A painter and embroiderer who dedicated much of her life to the development of a new form of crocheted lace. An amateur astronomer, she wrote ...
Mathewson, Thomas, b. 1842
Scottish colonial male orphan who set up a photography business after being taught by an Ipswich reverend. By the time he died, his horse driven ...
Sheppard, Catherine Elizabeth, b. 1842
Catherine Elizabeth (Kate) Sheppard was mainly known as a portrait painter, although she also painted altar pieces. In 1869 she gained public recognition for her ...
Streeter, Kate, b. 1842
Painter and teacher, was born in Cork, Ireland and came to Victoria with her parents. The myth of Sheppard as a prodigy persisted throughout her ...
Watts, James Laurence, b. 1849
Sculptor and painter, first full time curator Qld Art Gallery 1915. Best known for Boer War Memorial sculpture "The Scout" 1912, and busts of - ...
Wilson, William George, b. 1849
Painter, exhibited with the Queensland Art Society from 1892 to 1913.
Munday, Marian, b. 1850
The 1910 exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society of New South Wales included for the first time a display of art pottery from which ...
Grainger, Joseph Harry, b. 1853
J.H. Grainger was one of the original exhibitors at the Queensland Art Society and made a significant contribution to the development of art in early ...
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Campbell, John, b. 1855
Scenic painter and decorator who worked in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. Campbell also painted views of places and buildings around Perth.
Friström, Carl Magnus Oscar, b. 1856
Federation era Swedish born Brisbane painter. He also worked in a photographic studio presumably with his brother, Clas Edvard.
Rivers, Richard Godfrey, b. 1858
Bode, Edwin, b. 1859
Edwin Bode was a painter and photographer who travelled throughout Queensland painting watercolours of homesteads in exchange for board and lodging. A longtime resident of ...
Birkett, Rowena, b. 1860
Rowena Birkett was a natural history painter who is credited with assisting naturalist and artist Silvester Diggles with the illustrations and colouring of some of ...
Gasking, John, b. 1861
Federation era Sydney and Queensland sketcher, cartoonist and illustrator.
Archer, Daisy, b. 1862
Alice Manon Archer, known as Daisy Archer, was a wood-carver working in central Queensland from the turn of the century. Her daughter, Joan, became quite ...
Mouritzen, Frederick Christian, b. 1862
Architect and pottery entrepreneur was born in 1862 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mouritzen designed hotels in Boddington, Brookton, and Kunnunoppin. In 1921 he started the Calyx ...
Muntz, Josephine, b. 1862
Painter, residing in Melbourne, she diverged from standard patterns of taste in her use of a sombre palette and free, expressive brushwork. She exhibited internationally, ...