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Duterrau, Benjamin, b. 1767
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Mason, Cyrus, b. 1829
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 ...
Stopps, Arthur James, b. 1833
A watercolourist and lithographer, Stopps produced many scenes from the Victorian goldfields.
Piguenit, William Charles, b. 1836
Influential and widely exhibited late Colonial era Hobart and Sydney landscape painter, amateur photographer, draughtsman and explorer.
Mason, Edward, b. 1845
English colonial wood engraver and painter who worked with his brother Frederick on numerous illustrations for a range of Sydney newspapers. He had many jobs ...
Collingridge, George, b. 1847
Wood engraver, painter, founding member of the Royal Art Society of NSW, and founder of Australian Art, the first local magazine devoted to art. George ...
Mather, John, b. 1848
Glasgow born and educated, John Mather came to Melbourne hoping to pursue a full time career as an artist, but for some years had to ...
Symmons, Thomas, b. 1848
Late 19th century London and Perth painter and wood engraver. While in London Symmons engraved drawings by Henry French & Fred Barnard - "the Dickens ...
Mault, Patty, b. 1850
Colonial female lace-maker whose Gothic revival style and Celtic interlacing title pages illuminated the names of Queen Victoria and Lady Smith, before bringing the Tasmanian ...
Barnes, William Rodney, b. 1851
Early 20th century cartoonist, painter, illustrator and theatrical designer; active in Melbourne, New Zealand and America.
Egersdörfer, Heinrich, b. 1853
Late colonial era German-born painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Worked in Sydney and Melbourne as well as Cape Town, South Africa. He founded 'The South African ...
Mather, John Baxter, b. 1853
Late colonial period Adelaide painter, illustrator, etcher, curator, critic and journalist. In 1913, Mather was director of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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 ...
Withers, Walter, b. 1854
The English born painter Walter Withers is known for his moody landscapes of the Victorian landscape around Heidelberg, Eaglemont and Creswick. In the brotherhood of ...
Roberts, Tom, b. 1856
One of Australia's most iconic painters, Tom Roberts was an early champion of plein-air painting and together with Frederick McCubbin, Roberts helped establish the famous ...
Woodhouse, Herbert James, b. 1858
Late colonial period Melbourne painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor, is buried in Geelong Cemetery, Victoria.
Allport, Curzona Frances Louise, b. 1860
Painter and printmaker in Tasmania. Second daughter of Morton Allport, a Hobart solicitor and well-known amateur photographer. On 12 February 1894, the Mercury stated that ...
Allport, Curzona Frances Louise, b. 1860
Tasmanian born printmaker Curzona Frances Louise (Lily) Allport found success in London, after studying in Paris.
Menpes, Mortimer, b. 1860
While living in Japan in the 1880s, Menpes outraged Whistler, who accused him of plagiarising his own Japanese methods in painting. Whether this was so ...
Reid, David G., b. 1860
Scottish-born artist David G. Reid was an active member of the Sydney art scene from the mid 1880s up to the early 1930s. He is ...