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Testar, Elizabeth, b. 1819
Elizabeth Testar (née Turner) was a painter and singer. In 1850 she arrived with her husband Thomas in Victoria. Testar became one of Melbourne's principal ...
Scott, Margaret Cochrane, b. 1825
Late colonial-era Adelaide painter and cartoonist. Most of her art work appears to have been small in scale with numerous flower studies painted on green ...
Sinnett, Sophia, b. 1828
Painter and illustrator. Sinnett exhibited with the South Australian Society of Arts in 1863 and 1864.
Atkinson, Caroline Louisa Waring, b. 1834
Colonial-era NSW naturalist writer and illustrator. Caroline Atkinson was the daughter of Charlotte Barton, author of 'A Mother's Offering to Her Children' (1841), the first ...
Claxton, Florence, b. 1838
19th century English painter, illustrator, engraver and feminist. Lived briefly Sydney in the 1850s and occasionally used Australian themes in her English newspaper illustrations. She ...
Allport, Alice, b. 1840
Sketcher, one of a number of children of artist Henry Curzon Allport. Examples of Alice's work can be found in the Mitchell Library, State Library ...
Roth, A. Constance, b. 1859
Constance Roth, painter, cartoonist, decorative artist, art teacher and journalist, taught life drawing at Julian Ashton's in 1885. She departed Australia in 1892, travelling to ...
Nind, Bertha, b. 1865
Post WWI Bulletin cartoonist. Almost certainly Bertha Nind was a daughter of Isaac Scott Nind and Maria Nind, born in Liverpool, NSW, 1865.
Hopetoun, Hersey, b. 1867
Federation era Vice-Regal wife, cartoonist, watercolourist and photographer. Hopetoun had little taste for public life but was a keen angler, an expert horsewoman and an ...
Meeson Coates, Dora, b. 1869
Federation era painter, craftworker and illustrator, Meeson Coates was married to fellow painter George Coates and was an active participant in the Suffrage movement in ...
Muskett, Alice Jane, b. 1869
Federation era painter, illustrator and author. Residing for most of her life in Sydney, she was internationally exhibited.
Alsop, Edith Annie Mary, b. 1871
Painter, illustrator and printmaker who studied at the Central School of Arts in London and under André Lhôte in Paris. Despite her formal fine art ...
Rede, Geraldine, b. 1874
Geraldine Rede was an illustrator. The National Gallery of Australia's collection includes ten illustrated books by Rede. Interestingly,'Night Falls at Ti-Tree' is accredited to both ...
Vernon, Olive, b. 1874
A Federation-era Sydney cartoonist and sketcher, Olive Vernon was a member of NSW Government Architect Walter Liberty Vernon's family. Her sketches are held in the ...
Atherton, Vida Althea, b. 1875
Late colonial/Federation era Queensland sketcher. Atherton began drawing at a young age and was still sketching some years later while on her honeymoon. Most of ...
Gibbs, May, b. 1877
Creator of the famous tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the Gumnut babies, Gibbs began her career as a cartoonist and hoped to be recognised as ...
Healy, Phoebe, b. 1877
Early 20th century Sydney [?] cartoonist. She specialised in working-class subjects and jokes and contributed regularly to "Aussie" in 1930-31.
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Mort, Eirene, b. 1879
Designer and craftworker, Sydney, NSW, she was a prolific designer of textiles and various Applied Arts, often featuring Australian floral motifs, and was well known ...
Nicholls, Muriel G., b. 1879
A graphic artist. She created many illustrations for children's story books.
Collingridge, Annie, b. 1880
Collingridge was a teacher of painting and drawing who exhibited with the Bathurst Amateur Art Society during the 1890s.