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Frith, Frederick, b. 1819
Painter and professional photographer Frith's artistic legacy lies as a portrait and animal painter who pursued commercial success in Melbourne and Hobart.
Franke, F. G.
A painter and découpagist who exhibited paintings and works 'cut in paper' in Melbourne in the 1850s and 1860s.
G., A.
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 ...
Garling, Frederick, b. 1806
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 ...
Anderson, George
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 ...
Angas, George French, b. 1822
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 ...
Cruikshank, George, b. 1792
19th century English cartoonist who drew several cartoons with colonial Australian themes.
Dinham, George, b. 1807
George Dinham emigrated to Tasmania around 1846, he was an amateur painter who exhibited in several major exhibitions.
Walker, George
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 ...
Elder, Gershom, b.
A portrait painter who lived and worked in Melbourne in the 1840s. He obviously didn't prosper as he died in 1853 in debt to his ...
Gibbes, Francis, b. 1815
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 ...
Gilbert, Francis, b. 1820
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. ...
Gilbert, George, b. 1815
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. ...
Gray, Elizabeth, b.
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' ...
Gregory, George, b. 1843
marine painter, was born in the south of England circa 1824. Gregory arrived in Australia circa 1855.
Gregson, Flora
A watercolour painter who compiled an album of watercolour views in the Geelong and Gippsland districts from about 1854 to 1870.
Ball, Adam Gustavus, b. 1821
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 ...
B., A. H.
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 ...
B., C. H. B.
Watercolourist who is known from only five views of Victoria dated 1857 that are held in the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
Habbe, Alexander Christian, b. 1829
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 ...