Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Augustus Earle travelled extensively during his lifetime, producing paintings and lithographs of his travels in the Mediterranean, North & South America, the Pacific and Atlantic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A colonial scene-painter for Barnett Levey's old and new Theatre Royals in Sydney. Allen later worked in partnership with his son and in conjunction with ...
Watercolour painter. He was a contemporary and pupil of John Glover and brother to Joseph Allport, sister-in-law to Mary Morton Allport. Member of the Old ...
Watercolourist, surveyor and architect, arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1826 as architect and surveyor to the newly formed Van Diemen's Land Company. Painted watercolours ...
Greenway was deported to the colony after the family's building firm declared themselves bankrupt and he was found guilty of forging a document. He became ...
Landscape, still-life and portrait painter, was born 1779 at Einlage, Prussia. He was trained by Signor Piesio Ancora, a member of the School of Naples, ...
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 ...
Watercolour painter and drawing master who lived and painted in Van Diemen's Land during the 1830s. In 1833 Atkinson and his wife opened the Stanwell ...
A committed public servant, John Beaumont held various positions in Hobart Town with the colonial administration. Only one known surviving sketch exists, which is now ...
A painter, etcher, art teacher and engraver. Despite being 'deaf and dumb', a distinguishing handicap often mentioned in relation to his work, Carmichael was nevertheless ...
Bird painter, amateur photographer and ornithologist born in England, UK. Resident near Goulburn, NSW his drawings of Australian birds and their settings in pencil, pen ...
A portrait painter and miniaturist, J. B. East's best known work is his oil portrait of Jamaican boatman, Billy Blue. His lively watercolours of Europeans ...