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Bock, Alfred, b. 1835
One of the pioneers of early photography in the 19th century along with his stepfather Thomas Bock, Alfred Bock also pursued a number of other ...
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 ...
Duterrau, Benjamin, b. 1767
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Blyth, Eliza
Miss Blyth was a painter and art teacher who exhibited in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales despite living predominantly in Hobart, Tasmania. Formerly ...
Cox, Eliza, b. 1830
Watercolourist and resident of Tasmania and England.
Burgess, Ellen, b. 1821
Daughter of Judge Francis Burgess, Ellen visited Norfolk Island for a few months in 1846 with her father. While there she documented the landscape - ...
Dunnett, Frank C., b. 1822
Frank C. Dunnett was a painter, lithographer and surveyor. As a chronic asthmatic he was advised to leave Britain and so in about 1856 he ...
Errington, Eliza Helen, b. 1808
A painter and sketcher who lived in Tasmania where lithographer John Skinner Proust was regarded as a key influence on her work. She also spent ...
Baily, Henry Hall, b.
Henry Hall Baily was born in Tasmania but was trained at the London School of Photography in the early 1860s. A professional photographer, he exhibited ...
Davies, Henry Easom, b. 1831
Considered by contemporary critics to be a 'poet-painter' of colonial subjects. His Turner-esque technique nevertheless came to be considered overly stylised which may explain why, ...
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 ...
Bruford, Frederick Horatio, b. 1846
Victorian civil servant and amateur landscape painter. He exhibited at a number of significant venues but was once criticised for painting with "too great a ...
Crear, Johannah Clyne, b. 1824
Watercolourist and resident of Tasmania. She died in 1884 and was buried in the churchyard of Kirklands Chapel, near Campbell Town. Many years earlier, Crear ...
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 ...
Beamont, John, b. 1789
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 ...
Dixon, John Cowpland, b. 1819
John Cowpland Dixon was a photographic colourist and Anglican clergyman. He exhibited at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial and the 1879 Launceston Fine Arts exhibitions.
Broinowski, Gracius Joseph, b. 1837
Peripatetic artist who produced copious landscape images and sold them off inventively (through art unions). Finally settling down in Sydney, he taught in various private ...
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 ...
Cowie, Julia
Sketcher and watercolourist. Resident of Victoria, NSW and Tasmania. Cowie painted Regency-style specimens of wildflowers, some of which were showsn in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial ...
Lloyd, Henry Grant, b. 1830
A prolific watercolourist painter and sketcher, Lloyd is known as 'Australia's peripatetic artist'. He travelled indefatigably throughout his long life, recording many landscapes in Australia, ...