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Martens, Conrad, b. 1801
Well-travelled (South America, South Pacific and Australasia) English colonial watercolourist, oil painter, lithographer, sketcher and landscape artist who is one of the better known 19th ...
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Wall, William Sheridan, b. 1815
curator of the Australian Museum from 1845 to 1858. Wall contributed natural history drawings on a regular basis to the first series of the Illustrated ...
Eaton, Henry Green, b. 1818
Eaton was a lithographer and publican. He worked mainly in Queensland, producing lithographs of Australian flora and fauna and portraits based on photographs.
Ham, Thomas, b. 1821
Engraver, lithographer, professional photographer, cartographer and publisher, arrived in Melbourne in 1842 and began to produce maps and other official documents for the Victorian government. ...
Mason, George, b. 1827
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 ...
Knight, William, b. 1828
William Knight arrived in Melbourne in 1853 and worked as a Survey Engraver. He produced some lithographic work as well as photographs and sketches.
Martin, Marcellin Louis, b. 1837
French-born, Colonial era Queensland caricaturist, engraver, editor and businessman
Bevan, Edward, b. 1854
Arriving from England in the 1870s, Edward Bevan moved to Townsville and established himself as a surveyor and later as a newspaper editor. He was ...
Elliott, Frederick James, b. 1864
Frederick James 'Fred' Elliott, 1864-1949, was a prolific watercolour painter and lithographer, active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, specialising in marine subjects.
Elliott, Fred, b. 1865
A prolific marine painter who specialised in watercolour studies, Elliot travelled up and down the east coast by ship sketching scenes that he later made ...
Watkins, John Samuel, b. 1866
John Samuel Watkins (1866-1942) was an English born portrait painter. He is best known for operating a popular Sydney based art school during the early ...
Memory, Florence, b. 1875
Musician and artist who engaged with a critical correspondence with Art Gallery of New South Wales Director Hal Missingham
Templeton, Peter Smith, b. 1875
Peter Templeton worked in the visual arts for more than sixty years as a commercial artist and watercolourist. He was made a lifetime member of ...
Hart, Joseph Henry, b. 1880
Born in 1880, Joseph Henry Hart was an accomplished practitioner in diverse media including leatherwork, pewter work and painting. His major surviving work, his illustrations ...
Hilder, Jesse Jewhurst, b. 1881
Hilder's delicate, sensitive landscape watercolours were enthusiastically received when they were first exhibited in the early years of the century. This was in part because ...
Edwards, Mary Cooper, b. 1882
Painter, printmaker and teacher, born in England who came to Australia about 1914 and worked in New South Wales and Queensland. She died in Brisbane ...
Campbell, Ruby, b. 1888
Painter, etcher, wood-carver and pyrographer. Apart from a brief stint in Melbourne in the early 1920s, Ruby Campbell spent her entire life on her family's ...
Bustard, William, b. 1891
Painter, printmaker, stained-glass artist, illustrator and poster designer. He was profoundly influenced by York Minster with its medieval glass and music, he studied at the ...
Perry, Adelaide, b. 1891
Painter, printmaker and art teacher with her own studios and art schools in Sydney. Perry also studied, worked and exhibited in London and Paris. Her ...