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Biggs, Alfred Barrett
Alfred Barrett Biggs worked as a photographic artist in Tasmania c.1860. Examples of his work are held in the Archives Office of Tasmania.
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 ...
Clay, A. Bennett
Professional photographer and resident of Tasmania and Victoria.
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 ...
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 ...
Butcher, G. B.
G.B. Butcher was a professional photographer working in 1860s Tasmania.
Cherry, George, b. 1820
Professional photographer, inventor and penal officer born in England. Resident of Norfolk Island and Tasmania.
Fairman, B. George
B. George Fairman, who opened a studio in Launceston in the late 1860s, appears to have been a society photographer, since his stock-in-trade was the ...
Frankland, George, b. 1800
Described by a contemporary as 'a gentleman of the highest talents but without one atom of common sense', Frankland took part in exploratory missions in ...
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 ...
Button, Henry, b. 1829
Colonial photographer connected to the artist John Glover through his wife, he published two albums containing some reproductions of his photographs, Memories of Fifty Years ...
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, ...
Frith, Henry Albert, b.
Photographer and businessman. Started Frith and Co's studio in Tasmania with his brother. They provided a service that allowed enlargements of their photographs to be ...
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 ...
Calder, James Erskine, b. 1808
Sketcher and surveyor in Tasmania for more than forty years.
D'Emden, Henri James, b. 1824
Colonial era Tasmanian illustrator, cartoonist, lithographer, lawyer, clergyman and journalist.
Jobson, Frederick James, b. 1821
Colonial-era sketcher, architect and clergyman, he published various books on Australia, Methodism in the Australian colonies and ecclesiastical architecture that were illustrated with his own ...
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 ...