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Marsden, Mary Ellen, b. 1806
Female colonial poet, watercolourist and sketcher who posed for another painter in the act of painting flowers, although no floral still-lifes by her have been ...
Mason, George, b. 1827
English colonial male wood engraver and painter who taught music and set up Brisbane's first theatre. Apart from being bankrupted twice, he advertised as an ...
May, Alfred
Late colonial sketcher. May compiled 'A Week on the Wild Wave', a sketchbook held in Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.
King, Charles McArthur, b. 1824
Charles McArthur King, was a sketcher, pastoralist and magistrate. A sketchbook of coastal and landscape scenes, mostly of New Zealand, drawn between 1850 and 1899 ...
McCrae, George Gordon, b. 1833
Primarily a poet, McCrae kept a diary and sketched; his work was influenced by the Indigenous population at Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula. His ...
McCrae, Georgiana Huntly, b. 1804
A prolific painter. McCrae produced a variety of work throughout her life. She received much acclaim for her miniatures and portraits.
McCubbin, Frederick, b. 1855
From the 1880s, when his first mature work was painted, until just before his death in 1917, Frederick McCubbin painted some of Australia's most loved ...
Meyers, Maximilian, b. 1827
Painter, illuminator, engrosser and art teacher, ran an evening schools for 'the art of drawing and watercolouring' in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne throughout the 1850s-1870s. ...
McMinn, A B, b. 1844
Minns, B.E., b. 1863
B.E. Minns was introduced to art by the young Charles Conder, with whom he shared rooms in the 1880s. He soon developed a successful career ...
Bignell,
Miss Bignell exhibited an untitled watercolour drawing at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition. Little else is known of her artistic activity.
Codrington, M. H.
Painter, was a member of the ladies' classes at the School of Design, Sydney, NSW.
Maurice,
Tasmanian colonial art teacher who exhibited everyone else's work except his own and taught chemistry and mineralogy to pay for the space.
Montefiore, Eliezer, b. 1820
Sketcher, etcher, art patron, gallery director and businessman, he helped establish the New South Wales Academy of Art and the National Art Gallery of New ...
Cairnes, Elliot Moore, b. 1842
Sketcher, illuminator, public servant and mining geologist. Spent sixteen years on the goldfields of Ballarat, Sandhurst (Bendigo), Blackwood, Smythsdale and other places.
Neild, James Edward, b. 1824
Neild was mainly a weekend sketcher whose sketchbooks predominantly included drawings of places around Melbourne. He is most renowned as a journalist and critic writing ...
Neville, E. H.
Sketched Tasmanian scenes that include Campbell Town, Hobart Town, rural areas and churches. He produced an album containing seventeen of his watercolour sketches.
Nichols, Mary, b. 1837
Nichols came from an artistic family and is believed to have been enthusiastic about sketching, however there is no existing work.
Norman, Herbert Hayes, b. 1843
A dentist, sketcher and amateur photographer. He exhibited some photographs at a South Australian exhibition in 1859. Although he spent his time working as a ...
O'Brien, George, b. 1821
George O'Brien appears to be a man of many parts, watercolourist, lithographer, draughtsman, as well as architect and engineer.