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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 ...
Flintoff, Thomas, b. 1809
The adventurous Flintoff travelled in North America before reaching Melbourne, via Mexico and the Society Islands. This voyage formed the subject of his later paintings. ...
Perry, George William, b. 1824
Professional photographer, exhibited and well-recognised. Achievements include 'Perry-o-type' process, 1864; and telescopic photographs of 'the largest primary pictures of the moon', 1872.
Nettleton, Charles, b. 1825
A professional photographer, he is generally regarded as the major photographic recorder of Melbourne's growth from settlement to great city. Working as the official photographer ...
Henderson, John Black, b. 1827
Late colonial-era painter, sketcher, comic illustrator, amateur photographer and surveyor. A founding member of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870, Henderson showed six landscapes ...
Osborne, John Walter, b. 1828
Photographer and inventor of world's first commercially viable photolithographic process, adopted by Government of Victoria in 1861. Osborne's invention proved successful in England, Germany and ...
Niven, Francis Wilson, b. 1831
A sketcher, photographer, lithographer, carver, printer and stationary manufacturer. Upon arriving in Ballarat, Niven purchased a lithographic press from Alfred Ronalds for £40 - said ...
Bray, James E., b. 1832
Nineteenth-century photographer, one of four men who photographed the Kelly gang after the siege of Glenrowan.
Johnson, Barnet, b. 1832
Nineteenth century professional photographer, bookseller and journalist who made photographs of buildings and events around Melbourne. He returned to England in 1863 after amalgamating his ...
Madeley, Oswald Thomas, b. 1832
Colonial male police photographer and watchmaker who took the infamous photographs of the Kelly gang captured, including images of the charred remains of several of ...
Short, William Wackenbarth, b. 1833
William Wackenbarth Short was a painter and professional photographer. He came to Melbourne in 1852. Short applied for the position of artist on the ill-fated ...
Wilson, William John, b. 1833
Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...
Cornell, Frederick, b. 1834
Professional photographer in Melbourne and around Victoria.
Bent, William Mariner, b. 1835
William Mariner Bent was a professional photographer who had a number of studios in Bendigo, Victoria throughout the late the 1860s until the early 1890s. ...
Bock, Alfred, b. 1835
One of the pioneers of early photography in the 19th century along with his stepfather Thomas Bock, Alfred Bock also pursued a number of other ...
Johnstone, Henry James, b. 1835
A popular painter and professional photographer who was highly visible in Melbourne society in the late Victorian period thanks in large part to his flamboyant ...
Pickering, Alfred, b. 1835
Professional photographer, taught by brother Charles Percy Pickering. A travelling photographer specialised in photographing tombstones in rural NSW, 1870s-1880s. He is said to have photographed ...
Scott, Eugene Montagu, b. 1835
An incredibly diverse artist who demonstrated skills in a wide array of materials and styles. After arriving in Victoria from New Zealand, Scott flirted with ...
Hart, Ludovico Wolfgang, b. 1836
Hart was a photographer, a photo-mechanical printer, a public speaker and the founder of the first department of photography in Australia.
Solomon, Saul, b. 1836
Portrait painter, professional photographer, businessman, civic leader and politician. The La Trobe Library has a number of albums of his work and the Mortlock Library ...