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Edgar, Edmund, b. 1800
Edmund Edgar worked in London as a house painter and engraver before being convicted of robbery and sentenced to transportation for life. He used several ...
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 ...
Garling, Frederick, b. 1806
Earning his living working at Customs House, Frederick Garling only had early mornings and weekends to spend on his painting yet he was regarded as ...
Barney, George, b. 1792
George Barney was an English military officer who rose through the ranks of the Royal Engineers to become one of the most regarded and pioneering ...
Abbott, John, b. 1803
This sketcher, watercolourist and songwriter became the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in Van Diemen's Land in the mid nineteenth century. His watercolours were ...
Macarthur, Emmeline Maria, b. 1828
Colonial female painter and drawer of the famous Macarthur family who documented her life in pictures that are now missing. Fortunately she refers to these ...
Marsden, Ann, b. 1794
Female colonial painter and embroiderer who taught indigenous children literacy in her Sunday school at Parramatta, while exerting considerable influence on her father, the Reverend, ...
Marsden, Mary Ellen, b. 1806
Female colonial poet, watercolourist and sketcher who posed for another painter in the act of painting flowers, although no floral still-lifes by her have been ...
Renno, John
John Renno worked as a scene-painter and theatre mechanist at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Princess's and the Surrey Theatre, London. In 1852 he migrated ...
Noble, Richard
A painter who dealt mainly in portraiture. He painted portraits for many of Sydney's leading residents and exhibited his works in various exhibitions. His last ...
Read, Richard Daniel, b. 1796
Richard Read junior was a miniature, portrait and historical painter. Although by no means the only portrait painter in the colony, Read's career was one ...
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 ...
Brees, Samuel Charles, b. 1810
Samuel Charles Brees moved between England the the antipodes at regular intervals and was an architect, engineer, author and entrepreneur of renown in the colonies. ...
Sands & McDougall
Sands & McDougall was a large printing firm in 19th century Sydney. The firm employed artists to design invitations and illuminations.
Scott, David, b. 1804
Sketcher, military officer, vigneron and horse-breeder, was born in Bombay, India.
Prout, John Skinner, b. 1805
Prout was a painter, lithographer, art teacher and writer. An Australian critic once described his works as 'one of those wild and scattery bits, both ...
Stevens, George
Painter and photographer(?), exhibited twenty-two still-life paintings at the Royal Academy, London. Despite glowing reviews, Stevens appears to have had very little success in selling ...
David Strachan

by Strachan, David.

National retrospective touring exhibition of David Strachan's paintings and etchings. Curated by Daniel Thomas for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Because of Strachan's ...

Taylor, Alfred H., b. 1810
Painter who arrived in Australia from Britain in 1871, and had a large body of work produced both in London and Sydney.
Tompson, Charles, b. 1784
English born landholder and farmer whose two recorded sketches of himself and his wife are kept in possession of the family.