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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 ...
Fiveash, Rosa, b. 1854
A painter and etcher who lived her whole life in North Adelaide. An accomplished botanical illustrator and flower painter Fiveash was also a pioneer of ...
Mack, Maggie Pinkie, b. 1858
Weaver, singer and historian, collaborated with Ron and Catherine Berndt in their work of recording the old ways of the Yaraldi in 'A World That ...
I'Anson, Jessie Rebecca, b. 1862
Accomplished South Australian lacemaker and needlewoman. I'Anson was widowed at 36, and used her skills to support herself and her family for the remainder of ...
Tuck, Marie, b. 1866
Marie Tuck was a South Australian painter and printmaker. Heavily Influenced by French culture and painting, Tuck travelled to France where she took lessons from ...
Bosley, Thomas George Dufty, b. 1867
Thomas George Dufty Bosley was a talented and professional potter who began his career at the age of nine, when he became an apprentice at ...
Mengler, Bertha Maria Lizzette, b. 1867
Teacher of drawing, painting and applied arts who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts.
Ball, George Arnold, b. 1868
Following his occupation as a school teacher at Crystal Brook in South Australia’s north, George Arnold Ball embarked on a career as a photographer. He ...
Sinclair, Henriette, b. 1868
Henriette Sinclair is an example of the pottery students who transferred L.J. Harvey's teaching methods from Brisbane's Central Technical College interstate. She continued to produce ...
Hambidge, Alice, b. 1869
South Australian painter, known especially for her watercolours and pastel portraits of public figures and children. Alice's watercolour miniatures on ivory were in great demand ...
Munt, Ethel, b. 1870
China painter who was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She studied art, learning oil painting from James Ashton. Ethel was active in the 1930s and ...
Nixon, Charles Millington, b. 1870
The third generation in a family of photographers, Charles Nixon practiced as a photographic artist and landscape photographer. He was based at Kapunda in South ...
Hambidge, Millicent, b. 1872
Adelaide based painter best known for her watercolour portraits.
Lake, Florence Thorne, b. 1873
Florence Lake is one of the many female artists active in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century who has almost disappeared from ...
MacNally, Matthew James, b. 1873
A well known art critic and journalist, James MacNally was also a highly regarded watercolour artist during the interwar years.
Oats, Sidney Albert Boriston, b. 1874
Sidney Oats was a photographer based at Kapunda in South Australia’s Barossa Valley, where he was an active member of the town’s photographic club. He ...
Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel, b. 1874
An early activist for womens' rights, a theosophist and life long feminist, Bessie Mabel Rischbieth was a well known figure in Perth. Her early training ...
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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 ...
Heysen, Hans, b. 1877
German-born, Adelaide-based painter. Probably more than any other artist, Hans Heysen changed the way Australia saw the gum tree, as for many, many years his ...
Scott, James Fraser, b. 1877
A New Zealand born artist who had early success as a student in Europe, then worked as a war artist for Australia before setting up ...