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Bowerman, Henry Boucher, b. 1789
A sketcher, civil servant and land speculator, Bowman studied under the well-known painter Thomas Sandby while at the British Military Academy at Woolwich. Arriving in ...
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Burkitt, Alexander Horace, b. 1807
Received thanks for his contribution to the illustrations of Woods's 'A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia' (2 vols, London, 1865). for the ...
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 ...
Fairholme, George Knight Erskine, b. 1822
Described by his contemporaries as 'the most handsome man ever to come through Cunningham's Gap', the watercolourist and polymath George Fairholme had a fairytale life. ...
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
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Martens, Conrad, b. 1801
Well-travelled (South America, South Pacific and Australasia) English colonial watercolourist, oil painter, lithographer, sketcher and landscape artist who is one of the better known 19th ...
Dixon, Robert
Under Thomas Mitchell in the NSW Surveyor-General's Department, Dixon pioneered surveys in areas south-east of Sydney but was suspended for twice publishing maps without prior ...
Sawkins, James Gay
James Gay Sawkins was a landscape, portrait and genre painter. He was a skilful, precise draughtsman with a special interest in rock formations and other ...
White, James Charles, b. 1809
Sketcher and property manager who came to Australia from India in the early 1830s. He erected the famous Jondaryan woolshed, then the largest on the ...
Wickham, John Clements, b. 1798
English naval officer and police magistrate who would marry into the Macarthur family after serving on the Beagle for over a decade. In the course ...
Looker, William C., b. 1793
Clerk and possible sketcher. Pencil drawings that carry Looker's name may have been drawn by Henry Boucher Bowerman.