An architect, surveyor and selector, his drawings show a sharp eye for domestic detail and include humble buildings and people going about their everyday life.
Amateur photographer, farmer and magistrate. Resident of Western Australia his photographs of Fremantle in the late 1860s are considered to be among the best photographs ...
Watercolour painter, architect, engineer, administrator and police commissioner, between 1850 and 1863 he worked in Fremantle WA where he designed some significant buildings. He also ...
Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...
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 ...
Learnt photography in his father's Hobart studio, W. Thwaite jnr embarked on his own solo career touring every existing Australian colony from 1860 to 1888.
Harry Stockdale was sketcher, collector, explorer and horseman who also contributed articles on Aborigines and other subjects to various periodicals in the late 1800s.
Stephen Nixon was primarily a portrait photographer, based in South Australia during the nineteenth century. For some time he was considered Kapunda’s resident photographer, where ...
Anthony Fouchard was born in 1843. Fouchard was, according to his advertisements, a gold and silversmith, practical watch and clockmaker, and working jeweller. He arrived ...
Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...
Painter, botanical artist and the wife of John Forrest who was elected Premier of Western Australia in 1890. Margaret was also politically active and a ...