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Appleton, George A.
Painter, lithographer and photographic colourist during the 1860s. With Alexander Habbe, Appleton painted transparencies to celebrate the Sydney visit of the Duke of Edinburgh in ...
Gurney, Alexander George, b. 1902
Popular and prolific mid 20th century newspaper cartoonist. Worked in Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and widely published elsewhere. Creator of 'Bluey and Curley'.
Ballard, H. B.
Ballard was a professional photographer who practiced in Beechworth, Victoria from 1868, Mount Gambier, South Australia from 1880, and later in Branxton and Singleton, New ...
Bastin, Henri, b. 1896
Bastin emerged in the 1950s as a key figure in Australian primitive/naive art.
Hutton, Francis Frederick, b. 1826
Francis Hutton lived an adventurous life, cut short by shipwreck within a day's journey of Liverpool. He was an artist, portraitist, explorer and gold digger.
Ingleby, Bernard, b. 1878
His 1917 book 'Poems by Bernard Ingleby' dedicated, "To Jack Sommers Artist, Poet and Anzac."
Adamson, James Hazell, b. 1829
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
Backhouse, James, b. 1794
Only in Australia for six years, Backhouse kept extensive records of his experiences, which were then posthumously published in London. His observations have proven to ...
Aitken, John
Colonial sketcher and clergyman who managed to produce an album of sketches while on a whirlwind 12 month world tour that took in NSW, Victoria, ...
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 ...
Jackson, John Alexander, b. 1809
Sketcher and public servant, was born in Scotland and came to Sydney, Australia in 1825 to be employed as a Government draughtsman. He moved between ...
Jefferson, Joseph, b. 1829
Joseph Jefferson was a landscape and scene-painter and an actor. He was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson made his stage debut when he ...
Leach-Jones, Alun, b. 1937
Alun Leach-Jones was one of the generation of artists who helped define Australian colourfield art in the 1960s. Hie first came to prominence exhibiting in ...
Lincolne, Abraham, b. 1815
Abraham Lincolne was a sketcher, writer, farmer and stock agent. He came to New South Wales in 1838 where he rented Fig Tree Farm at ...
Kohlhagen, Lisette Anna, b. 1890
Kohlhagen worked in watercolour, tempera and oil on canvas/board, linocut prints and pottery; her subject matter included landscapes, still-lifes and, especially, genre studies.
Borgelt, Marion, b. 1954
Painter, mixed media and installation artist. In 1996 Marion Borgelt became the first Australian artist to be awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. In 2001-2003 she ...
Marquet, Claude Arthur, b. 1869
Significant early 20th century Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney political cartoonist
Marshall, Jennifer, b. 1944
An established artist born in 1944, Marshall studied printmaking at the South Australian School of Art under Karin Scheppers and Udo Sellbach. She first exhibited ...
McClintock, Herbert, b. 1906
Mid 20th century political and surrealist painter, cartoonist, commercial artist and singer.