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Bell, Thomas, b. 1798
After emigrating from Ireland, Thomas Bell and his family lived on the land in New South Wales. After his wife died, Bell placed an advertisement ...
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 ...
Laing, James William, b. 1811
Laing came to Victoria during the gold rush and travelled around the colony drawing pencil views of properties and buildings.
Backler, Joseph, b. 1813
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...
Hazelton, Alfred William, b. 1816
Professional photographer and schoolteacher, Hazelton practiced in Queensland in the mid 1850s. Later moving with his wife and children to Sydney, where he continued as ...
Diggles, Silvester, b. 1817
Regardless of whether he was painting a seashore scene on a mutton shoulder-blade, or showing his special skill in life-like and accurate natural history illustrations, ...
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.
Sandrock, George Frederick, b. 1819
Sandrock was a keen photographer, taking view photographs in the West Indies, Palmerston (Darwin), Bowen, Cardwell and Rockhampton. He was a customs officer, held a ...
Stombuco, Andrea, b. 1820
An industrious architect, monumental mason, sculptor and builder who designed 54 public buildings in every Australian state except South Australia.
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. ...
Huxley, Thomas, b. 1825
Thomas Henry Huxley was a sketcher, amateur photographer, biologist, anthropologist, philosopher and scientific publicist. Appointed assistant surgeon and naturalist to HMS 'Rattlesnake' he was part ...
Sweet, Samuel White, b. 1825
Colonial photographer and master mariner, awarded a silver medal for his photographs at the Calcutta International Exhibition in 1885. His photographic career included some unusual ...
Hirst, Charles Gordon Sebastian, b. 1826
CGS Hirst was an itinerant artist who worked in south-eastern Queensland in the decade of the 1870 and produced delightful, naïve renderings largely of farm ...
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 ...
Charnay, Désiré, b. 1828
Professional photographer, journalist, ethnographer and collector.
Fogg, Sarah Ann, b. 1829
Sarah Ann Fogg lived variously in Germany, Italy, South Africa and Tasmania and had many opportunities for studying the great Western works of Europe. It ...
Marquis, Daniel, b. 1829
Male professional photographer, trained in Scotland, who offered a typical range of services through his Brisbane based studio. He produced many studio photographs of Indigenous ...
Sealy, Thomas A., b. 1829
Thomas A.Sealy was a muralist, monumental carver and stonemason. He drank heavily and local oral tradition holds that he paid his bills by painting murals.
Lloyd, Henry Grant, b. 1830
A prolific watercolourist painter and sketcher, Lloyd is known as 'Australia's peripatetic artist'. He travelled indefatigably throughout his long life, recording many landscapes in Australia, ...