Advanced Search
22 results for … adjust search
Results
Hall, Algernon
Professional photographer, worked in Victoria and Queensland taking portraits and views of towns and districts. He photographed the bushranger Daniel 'Mad Dog' Morgan lying dead ...
Harrison, Henry Bromilow, b. 1878
Early 20th century Brisbane and Melbourne painter and cartoonist. Harrison showed his work with Queensland Art Society, (Brisbane).
Clarke, John James
John James Clarke was a watercolorist and architect. He was appointed Colonial Architect in Queensland in 1883 but was sacked in 1885. He and his ...
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 ...
Kingsbury, Elizabeth Jane, b. 1858
Mrs JJ (Elizabeth) Kingsbury produced a remarkable art item in her poker-worked sideboard (which was identified quite fortutiously). She is representative of the many remarkable ...
Leonard, John H.
Late colonial-period Adelaide, Melbourne and, possibly, Brisbane newspaper cartoonist, Leonard was the cartoonist "Leo" on the Port Adelaide News c.1877
Lomer, Albert
Professional photographer and colourist of Brisbane, Sydney and Queensland who worked throughout the mid to late 19th century. A one-time partner of Andrew Chandler, Lomer's ...
Edmonds, Mabelle Blanche, b. 1880
Federation era Brisbane and Sydney painter, illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist. In 1904 Mabelle Edmonds stated that her ambition was 'to draw for ever and ever', ...
Field, Margaret Ann, b. 1842
A painter and embroiderer who dedicated much of her life to the development of a new form of crocheted lace. An amateur astronomer, she wrote ...
McDonald, Isabel Agnes, b. 1871
It is believed Isabel McDonald studied under both Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts, powerhouses of Australian romanticism. Roberts was certainly known to her though, even ...
Muntz, Josephine, b. 1862
Painter, residing in Melbourne, she diverged from standard patterns of taste in her use of a sombre palette and free, expressive brushwork. She exhibited internationally, ...
Rielly, Henry, b. 1845
Henry Rielly established his career and reputation in Victoria but his work took on an added signficiance when he came to live in regional Queensland ...
Scott, Eugene Montagu, b. 1835
An incredibly diverse artist who demonstrated skills in a wide array of materials and styles. After arriving in Victoria from New Zealand, Scott flirted with ...
Scott, Montagu
Montagu Scott arrived in Melbourne in the late 1850s and ran a photographic studio before illustrating the Melbourne Punch. He later moved to Sydney where ...
Sheppard, Catherine Elizabeth, b. 1842
Catherine Elizabeth (Kate) Sheppard was mainly known as a portrait painter, although she also painted altar pieces. In 1869 she gained public recognition for her ...
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 ...

Streeter, Kate, b. 1842
Painter and teacher, was born in Cork, Ireland and came to Victoria with her parents. The myth of Sheppard as a prodigy persisted throughout her ...
Taylor, Norman, b. 1834
With the death of his father acting as a catalyst, Norman Taylor (1834/1894) left England with his mother to arrive in Melbourne at the age ...
Bevan, Thomas
Thomas Bevan was a professional photographer in the nineteenth century who is known to have lived and practiced in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Jenner, Isaac Walter, b. 1836
Painter, was born in Surrey, England. He took up painting after retiring from the British Navy. Due to this, ships and marine scenes were popular ...