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Hodgson, Eliza, b. 1820
Painter and sketcher, was born in England and came to Sydney in 1828. In 1842 she moved to Queensland with her husband where she became ...
Henning, Rachel Biddulph, b. 1826
Sketcher and letter-writer, she is primarily known for her letters which describe rural life in Australia, particularly that on her brother's Queensland property, in the ...
Dumaresq, Susan Frances Sophia, b. 1832
A nineteenth-century amateur sketcher and member of the well-known Dumaresq family. She trained with Conrad Martens before marrying the son of the Earl of Hopetoun ...
McIlwaine, Leila, b. 1840
Leila McIlwaine's skills were beyond that of the average amateur but it is not known whether she trained as an artist in England before coming ...
Murray-Prior, Mary, b. 1845
Murray-Prior spent most of her childhood on the family property, Wyangarie, on the Richmond River. She was friendly with the local Aboriginal population and took ...
Munday, Marian, b. 1850
The 1910 exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society of New South Wales included for the first time a display of art pottery from which ...
Birkett, Rowena, b. 1860
Rowena Birkett was a natural history painter who is credited with assisting naturalist and artist Silvester Diggles with the illustrations and colouring of some of ...
Midgley, Sarah, b. 1864
Doll maker and businesswoman, worked in Queensland and Sydney NSW, produced ceramic-faced dolls that were sold nationally and internationally.
Chauvel, Lilian, b. 1867
Painter and designer. Chauvel 'discovered and developed the art of "panchrocis", a delicate technique of paintings on silks and satins, of which she made lamp ...
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 ...
Blakemore, Rose, b. 1870
Queensland-born, Sydney-based miniature portrait artist and art teacher active in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Fletcher, Winifred Scott, b. 1871
A carver and metalworker Fletcher worked almost exclusively with pewter thanks to improvements in manufacturing. A founding member of the Arts and Crafts Society of ...
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 ...
Devereux, Mrs W. P. [Bessie], b. 1874
Mrs W.P. (Bessie) Devereux was one of the most significant and original of L.J. Harvey's early students as she included wheel throwing among her skills.
Memory, Florence, b. 1875
Musician and artist who engaged with a critical correspondence with Art Gallery of New South Wales Director Hal Missingham
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Tufnell, Louise, b. 1878
Craftworker, working with fashion and costume designs featuring decorative beadwork and hand embroidery.
Edmonds, Mabelle Blanche, b. 1880
Federation era Brisbane and Sydney painter, illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist. In 1904 Mabelle Edmonds stated that her ambition was 'to draw for ever and ever', ...
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Agar, Bernice, b. 1885
Glamorous and highly accomplished photographer best known for her images of Sydney socialites and brides. Such was her skill that when she retired upon marriage ...
Payne, Frances, b. 1885
a painter and commercial artist who was born in Brisbane, Queensland. Payne is said to have been one of Australia's highest paid working women of ...
O'Reilly, Maud, b. 1886
Maud O'Reilly was one of L.J. Harvey's students who furthered her skills by studying wheelthrowing and glazing when she visited London in 1925. She made ...