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Currie, Jane Eliza, b. 1794
Miniature and watercolour painter, born in England, UK. Resident of Western Australia she painted some of earliest known views taken in the area.
Marsden, Ann, b. 1794
Female colonial painter and embroiderer who taught indigenous children literacy in her Sunday school at Parramatta, while exerting considerable influence on her father, the Reverend, ...
Bunbury, Margaret Richardson, b. 1795
Lady Bunbury brought with her from Ireland a noted passion for such gentle pursuits as embroidery, sketching, specimen collecting and visiting. Her residence, Charterhouse at ...
Barton, Charlotte, b. 1797
Charlotte Barton came to Australia upon her father's death to work as a governess. Two of her daughters went on to become well-known artists but ...
Nayler, Maria Elizabeth, b. 1802
A painter,lithographer and art teacher. During her career she produced portraits, miniatures, copies of Old Masters, lithographs and bird and still life portraits.
McCrae, Georgiana Huntly, b. 1804
A prolific painter. McCrae produced a variety of work throughout her life. She received much acclaim for her miniatures and portraits.
Allport, Mary Morton, b. 1806
Painter of landscapes, flowers, natural history studies and portrait miniatures. Allport's etchings, engravings and lithographs were the first to have been made by a woman ...
Macarthur, Emily, b. 1806
Female colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family who painted and sketched places where she lived and travelled, eventually establishing the Macarthur family home, Camden ...
Marsden, Mary Ellen, b. 1806
Female colonial poet, watercolourist and sketcher who posed for another painter in the act of painting flowers, although no floral still-lifes by her have been ...
Prout, Maria Heathilla, b. 1807
On seeing Prout perform, one critic found it gratifying and astonishing 'to find in this remote part of the British dominions, talents in the arts ...
Stieglitz, Emma von, b. 1807
Painted mainly domestic scenes, von Stieglitz also painted portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal men and women. The latter were regarded as inferior because they were colonial ...
Thurston, Eliza, b. 1807
Despite having to raise a young family on her own in a country not of her birth, Eliza Thurston managed to become an established and ...
Walker, Theresa, b. 1807
Walker received little formal education, but as a young woman showed considerable talent in the art of modelling. She would become very well known for ...
Errington, Eliza Helen, b. 1808
A painter and sketcher who lived in Tasmania where lithographer John Skinner Proust was regarded as a key influence on her work. She also spent ...
Fereday, Susan, b. 1810
A watercolourist who lived predominantly in Tasmania. Fereday was also a natural history enthusiast and an accomplished collector who worked with Professor W.H Harvey of ...
Hall, Rebecca Stokes, b. 1810
Sketcher, was married to the master mariner John Vine Hall. Views of Sydney and Bass Strait were made in 1840-41 when aboard her husband's ship.
Solly, Amelia, b. 1811
Late 19th century Tasmanian artist, working in oils, watercolour and drawing. Sister to Benjamin Travers Solly.
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Meredith, Louisa, b. 1812
Miniaturist, watercolourist, engraver, poet, writer and botanist. She resided in Tasmania for most of her life and exhibited in many Intercolonial Exhibitions.
Mitchell, Catherine, b. 1812
Sketcher, came out from England to Tasmania in order to marry John Mitchell. Catherine Mitchell sketched her personal surroundings but never exhibited. There is some ...
Berkeley, Martha Maria Snell, b. 1813
England-born resident of Australia's southern states, Berkeley is best known for her large watercolours of Adelaide and as a gifted portraitist. The Art Gallery of ...