Painter and professional photographer Frith's artistic legacy lies as a portrait and animal painter who pursued commercial success in Melbourne and Hobart.
Sketcher, filled a sketchbook with views while living in Sydney in 1859-60. Most are watercolours and all are monogrammed (somewhat indecipherably) and dated. They include ...
Earning his living working at Customs House, Frederick Garling only had early mornings and weekends to spend on his painting yet he was regarded as ...
George Anderson was a painter and decorator who was responsible for the decoration of a number of buildings in Heathcote, Victoria, including the hall at ...
A watercolour and natural history painter, many of Angas's sketches from his travels as a naturalist in the mid 1800s became the basis for lithographic ...
Painter and professional photographer, exhibited artworks, mainly copies, at the Melbourne Exhibition, 1854 and Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Although listed in the Melbourne Directory as ...
Gibbes's paintings were watercolours of well-known scenery in Victoria although he also showed views of picturesque places in NSW, New Zealand and Scotland. He was ...
As tutor to John Cotton, he used his employer's photographic equipment to make daguerreotype portraits but later moved to Geelong to work as a surveyor. ...
George Gilbert founded the first magazine in Victoria, and helped found the Melbourne debating society. He was a multi-talented artist, but was eventually declared bankrupt. ...
Elizabeth Gray received a royal commission after presenting two vases made from black swan eggs on which she had etched 'some sketches of natural history' ...
Like so many artists of the period, Ball's job as a civil engineer allowed him to travel throughout South Australia recording scenes of outback life ...
Little is known of the watercolourist who painted landscapes of the NSW and Victorian countryside but that they were active in the mid-nineteenth century around ...
Colonial era Danish-born scene-painter, cartoonist and soldier. Habbe's scenes painted for the Christmas pantomimes at the Opera House rivalled those of John Hennings at the ...