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Bailey,
The exact identity of the artist Bailey remains unknown - but there are several contenders including the Anglo-Irish sculptor Edward Hodges Baily and the painter ...
Boswell, Annabella Alexandra Campbell, b. 1826
Annabella Alexandra Campbell Boswell was a diarist and accomplished flower painter who grew up in central west New South Wales before moving to Port Macquarie. ...
Archer, Charles, b. 1813
Charles Archer made numerous maps and drawings of Queensland and is considered one of its major early artists. A member of the enterprising colonial Archer ...
Christie,
Painter, signed an oil view, Pyrmont from Barker's Mills, in 1859. Possibly William Harvey Christie or Mrs Steadman Christie.
Cumberland, Charles Burrell, b. 1828
Watercolourist and sketcher born in London, England, UK. Resident of Tasmania.
Allport, Curzon, b. 1837
Sketcher, amateur photographer and solicitor. Son of artist Mary Morton Allport. Allport was the first president of the Tasmanian Photographic, Science and Art Association, elected ...
Delohery, Cornelius
Colonial artist, arrived in Australia as a public servant but was dismissed for insubordination, which he sought to clear himself of by letters of petition, ...
Duterrau, Benjamin, b. 1767
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Earles, Chester, b. 1821
Earles painted portraits and figures inspired by literature and the Bible. He exhibited widely in his lifetime.
Edgar, Edmund, b. 1800
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 ...
Boulton, Edward Baker, b. 1812
Edward Baker Boulton was a grazier in northern New South Wales whose artistic practice is said to have enjoyed more attention than his sheep. A ...
Dalton, Edwin
A prominent society photographer, teacher to Queen Victoria and inventor of the 'Biotype'. His talent for portraiture was such 'you could almost speak to' his ...
Blyth, Eliza
Miss Blyth was a painter and art teacher who exhibited in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales despite living predominantly in Hobart, Tasmania. Formerly ...
Burgess, Ellen, b. 1821
Daughter of Judge Francis Burgess, Ellen visited Norfolk Island for a few months in 1846 with her father. While there she documented the landscape - ...
Davitt, Ellen, b. 1812
Painter, teacher and novelist who ruffled a few feathers with her overbearing personality. She taught drawing at various schools but her own art was not ...
Cooper, Duncan Elphinstone, b. 1813
Watercolourist and squatter. Resident of Tasmania, Sydney, Western Australia and Victoria. Cooper was a modest artist, bequeathing his 'book of Sketches by John Glover [q.v.]' ...
Fanning, Charles, b. 1815
Charles Fanning taught drawing on the Isle of Jersey before a stay of approximately five years painting and drawing in Sydney. He then moved to ...
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 ...
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.