Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Edmund Edgar worked in London as a house painter and engraver before being convicted of robbery and sentenced to transportation for life. He used several ...
Arriving in Sydney in the 1830s, Edward Barlow established himself as a successful printer and lithographer. Barlow was something of an entrepreneur whose work included ...
Daughter of Judge Francis Burgess, Ellen visited Norfolk Island for a few months in 1846 with her father. While there she documented the landscape - ...
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 ...
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. ...
Born in London, Gilks led a tumultuous career shifting between self employment and working for the Crown Lands Department. During this time he exhibited his ...
After she asked who would draw the plates on stone, her husband answered 'Why, you, of course!' Thus began a large series of hand-coloured lithographs ...
Burn's watercolour and oil landscapes demonstrate his success in capturing the changing effects of light and atmosphere as well as incorporating interesting contemporary details.
Eaton was a lithographer and publican. He worked mainly in Queensland, producing lithographs of Australian flora and fauna and portraits based on photographs.
Painter, engraver, lithographer and photographer, born in England and moved to the Ballarat goldfields in 1853. Taught art in Melbourne in the late 1870s-mid 1880s ...
Edward Hulme was a painter, lithographer, art teacher, gold-miner and farmer who came to Melbourne with his family in 1856. On arriving he was soon ...
A watercolourist and lithographer who worked in Sydney in the 1840s and 1850s Ellis produced landscape paintings of Sydney and lithographs of its churches.
An eminent US scholar, considered to be "a towering figure in the history of geology". Dana's contribution to Australian geology was his description and mapping ...
Nineteenth-century astronomer, a poet and a collector of geological, anthropological and natural history specimens. Dunlop clearly had some sketching ability.