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Backler, Joseph, b. 1813

Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...

Bennett, Joseph Arthur, b. 1853

After emigrating from England in 1882, Joseph A. Bennett exhibited regularly with the Art Society of NSW and was reviewed by the local papers for ...

Boyd, Joseph F.

Joseph F. Boyd was a regular exhibitor of his oil paintings in Melbourne and Sydney throughout the 1860s, 70s and 80s. Of those works that ...

Brady, Joseph, b. 1828

Mainly a civil engineer and surveyor. Brady is known for numerous watercolour sketches that were executed in England, on his voyage to Australia, and after ...

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 ...

Check, Joseph, b. 1856

Photographer in New South Wales. His flashlight photograph is held at the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

Clarke, Joseph Augustine, b. 1840

Illustrator, painter, etcher, art teacher and decorator born in England. Resident of Brisbane Clarke was the first etcher in Queensland.

Docker, Joseph, b. 1802

Photographer Joseph Docker is thought to have taken the earliest surviving calotypes in Australia. With his photographer son, they took many images of the Australian ...

Eales, Joseph Herbert, b. 1864

Architect who designed a number of important buildings in Western Australia and who, in conjunction with C. L. Oldham, won a competition in 1897 to ...

Elliott, Joseph John, b. 1835

An innovative photographer by the age of fifteen, Elliot came to Australia in search of gold. When that proved fruitless, he set up as a ...

Grainger, Joseph Harry, b. 1853

J.H. Grainger was one of the original exhibitors at the Queensland Art Society and made a significant contribution to the development of art in early ...

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 ...

Johnson, Joseph Colin Francis, b. 1848

Late Colonial-era South Australian painter, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and politician. In 1884 he entered Parliament as Member for Onkaparinga and became Minister for Education in ...

Anson, Joshua, b. 1854

Joshua Anson was a photographer, one of the Anson Brothers photographic firm in Hobart with Henry Joseph Anson and Richard Edwin Anson. In a court ...

Higgs, Joshua

A painter who was included as a professional artist in an art exhibition in Launceston in 1885. His Tasmanian watercolours include Low Head, Tasmania, 1891, ...