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Archer, Alexander, b. 1828
Member of a large enterprising colonial family which included a number of fellow artists, Archer worked for a number of years for the Bank of ...
Bright, Ashbury
Bright worked as a professional photographer from 1858 to 1868 in Victoria and Queensland. As well as producing carte-de-visite portraits in Melbourne, he photographed Aboriginal ...
Chandler, Andrew
Professional photographer. Took photographs in all the eastern colonies of Australia, except Tasmania.
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Blackman, Charles, b. 1928
The Antipodean artist Charles Blackman was best known for his paintings of schoolgirls and the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland. He was a part of ...
Charnay, Désiré, b. 1828
Professional photographer, journalist, ethnographer and collector.
Barlow, Fil, b. 1963
Contemporary Brisbane children's book illustrator, comic strip artist and puppeteer. Barlow was 12 when his first printed comic - 'Fudsey' - ran for four weeks ...
Fyans, Foster, b. 1790
Although known more for his eccentricities and lively memoirs than his art, Fyans was a sophisticated watercolourist. He is known for a fine picture of ...
Gibbs, Cyril, b. 1906
Cyril Gibbs was an accomplished watercolourist who produced a substantial output over his lifetime but his contribution to arts administration in Brisbane was probably as ...
Griffin, Gerald
Lithographer working for the Victorian government in the Department of Crown Lands, eventually was Licensee of the Critereon Hotel, North Bundaberg.
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 ...
Hall, Doug, b. 1954
Doug Hall first came to prominence with his curatorial scholarship at Bendigo Art Gallery. Later he was responsible for the transformation of the Queensland Art ...
Aikin, Hamilton, b. 1904
English male photographer, film-maker, editor and Presbyterian priest who went outback for Outreach, a Church journal, documenting indigenous cultures and mission activity.
Bastin, Henri, b. 1896
Bastin emerged in the 1950s as a key figure in Australian primitive/naive art.
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 ...
Field, Henry, b.
A professional photographer who came to Victoria from England in the mid 1850s, presumably - and unsuccessfully - in search of gold. In the late ...
Harrison, Henry Bromilow, b. 1878
Early 20th century Brisbane and Melbourne painter and cartoonist. Harrison showed his work with Queensland Art Society, (Brisbane).
Hobler, Frank, b. 1825
Sketcher, has one drawing attributed to him, from the mid 1840s, of his family home at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria.
Alkins, Horace F.
Alkins was a painter who was known to be active in Melbourne and Brisbane from 1880.
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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 ...
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Burkitt, Horace, b. 1836
Burkitt was a prolific watercolourist who made studies of the various Victorian districts in which he was stationed as a telegraph operator. His grandson donated ...