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Allport, Curzon, b. 1837
Sketcher, amateur photographer and solicitor. Son of artist Mary Morton Allport. Allport was the first president of the Tasmanian Photographic, Science and Art Association, elected ...
Earles, Chester, b. 1821
Earles painted portraits and figures inspired by literature and the Bible. He exhibited widely in his lifetime.
Dalton, Edwin
A prominent society photographer, teacher to Queen Victoria and inventor of the 'Biotype'. His talent for portraiture was such 'you could almost speak to' his ...
Davitt, Ellen, b. 1812
Painter, teacher and novelist who ruffled a few feathers with her overbearing personality. She taught drawing at various schools but her own art was not ...
Cooper, Duncan Elphinstone, b. 1813
Watercolourist and squatter. Resident of Tasmania, Sydney, Western Australia and Victoria. Cooper was a modest artist, bequeathing his 'book of Sketches by John Glover [q.v.]' ...
Bland, G., b.
G. Bland did not stay long in Victoria but it is known that he worked as a portrait painter in Melbourne and Geelong. It was ...
Elder, Gershom, b.
A portrait painter who lived and worked in Melbourne in the 1840s. He obviously didn't prosper as he died in 1853 in debt to his ...
Gilbert, Francis, b. 1820
As tutor to John Cotton, he used his employer's photographic equipment to make daguerreotype portraits but later moved to Geelong to work as a surveyor. ...
Gilbert, George, b. 1815
George Gilbert founded the first magazine in Victoria, and helped found the Melbourne debating society. He was a multi-talented artist, but was eventually declared bankrupt. ...
Burn, Henry, b. 1807
Burn's watercolour and oil landscapes demonstrate his success in capturing the changing effects of light and atmosphere as well as incorporating interesting contemporary details.
Gritten, Henry, b. 1818
Henry Gritten was a painter and professional photographer. He 'enjoyed the favour of Prince Albert, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Westminster'. Gritten ...
Hainsselin, Henry, b. 1820
Painter, engraver, lithographer and photographer, born in England and moved to the Ballarat goldfields in 1853. Taught art in Melbourne in the late 1870s-mid 1880s ...
Holmes, Henry
Portraitist, scene-painter and art teacher, Holmes worked predominantly in Melbourne throughout the mid to late nineteenth century.
Castella, Charles Hubert De, b. 1825
Painter, landowner and viticulturalist born in Switzerland. Resident of Yering and Ivanhoe, Vic. for many years. De Castella is credited as being both a talented ...
Hulme, Edward, b. 1818
Edward Hulme was a painter, lithographer, art teacher, gold-miner and farmer who came to Melbourne with his family in 1856. On arriving he was soon ...
Carter, Irene, b. 1900
Irene Carter was born in 1900. She was a painter, musician and teacher who won the watercolour section of the Art Competition in 1951. Carter ...
Daplyn, Alfred James, b. 1844
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...
Adamson, John
Scottish colonial male draughtsman whose sketches and paintings of Melbourne were reproduced as lithographs even after his sudden death at sea en route to Calcutta. ...
Gilfillan, John, b. 1793
After a tumultuous childhood running away to sea, being shipwrecked and press ganged for 8 years, Gilfillan studied art and made it his career. He ...
Irvine, John, b. 1805
As a painter and portraitist, John Irvine made a name for himself in Scotland as well as Adelaide and Dunedin. Actively involved in art societies, ...