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Peale, Titian, b. 1799
Titian Ramsay Peale was a painter, naturalist, amateur photographer and museum curator. He was born in Philadelphia, North America, in 1799. Peale was appointed to ...
Champion, Thomas, b. 1800
Professional photographer born in Somerset, NSW. Resident of London and Sydney he spent the majority of his life in Windsor, NSW where he became a ...
Macarthur, William, b. 1800
Member of the famous colonial Macarthur family who may have been an amateur photographer. William was involved in numerous organisations and participated in several international ...
Cotton, John, b. 1801
Bird painter, amateur photographer and ornithologist born in England, UK. Resident near Goulburn, NSW his drawings of Australian birds and their settings in pencil, pen ...
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Docker, Joseph, b. 1802
Photographer Joseph Docker is thought to have taken the earliest surviving calotypes in Australia. With his photographer son, they took many images of the Australian ...
Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Wingate, Thomas, b. 1807
Retired army officer who came to Sydney in 1852. Wingate worked in the media of photography, painting and drawing. He exhibited a photographic panorama of ...
Russell, Robert, b. 1808
Despite Russell's extensive work as a sketcher, amateur photographer, etcher, lithographer, carver, architect and surveyor, he is still better known for his work ethic and ...
Hodgson, William, b. 1809
Amateur photographer and Anglican clergyman he came to Australia in 1856 where he was principal of Moore Theological College at Liverpool, NSW until 1867. He ...
Bull, Knud Geelmuyden, b. 1811
Painter, photographer and drawing master in Hobart and Sydney in the mid to late nineteeth century. Bull arrived in Australia as a convict, having been ...
Shaw, George Baird, b. 1812
In order to perfect his artistic skills George Baird Shaw was sent to the Academy of Fine Arts at Trieste, Italy. He was awarded the ...
Claxton, Marshall, b. 1813
Painter, modeller and amateur photographer born in England. Resident of NSW and Victoria he was a prolific painter and 'national benefit'. He is represented in ...
Kilburn, Douglas Thomas, b. 1813
Douglas Thomas Kilburn was a professional photographer. His practice was extremely successful, despite advertising that he worked slowly, was expensive, opened only between 11 and ...
Rae, John, b. 1813
"I am anxious to make some of you amateurs like myself" was Rae's plea to students at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in 1855. ...
Freeman, James, b. 1814
As professional collaborators, James and William Freeman achieved great success with their quality portraits and innovative approach. Their unusually elongated studio enabled them to overcome ...
Nixon, William Millington, b. 1814
William Nixon emigrated from Birmingham to South Australia in 1855. A gunsmith by trade, Nixon switched to a career in photography following his experience in ...
Thwaites, Walter William, b. 1814
A miniature painter and engraver, W.W. Thwaites (1814-1888)and sons established themselves as professional photographers in West and South Australia in the 1860s. However, despite such ...
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Allerding, Frederick, b. 1815
Allerding was a jeweller and amateur photographer known to be in Sydney, NSW in 1872.
Plomley, Jenner, b. 1815
Jenner Plomley was an amateur photographer and medical practitioner. From about 1857 he lived on the Hunter's Hill peninsula. In 1862 Dr Plomley showed his ...
Schrader, Hermann Friedrich, b. 1815
Professional photographer from Adelaide. Died in 1863.