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Bock, Alfred, b. 1835
One of the pioneers of early photography in the 19th century along with his stepfather Thomas Bock, Alfred Bock also pursued a number of other ...
Cunningham, Andrew, b. 1831
Painter, professional photographer and decorator, born in Scotland. Resident of Armidale, NSW, he was Armidale's first resident photographer.
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, ...
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 ...
Fox, Alexander, b. 1828
A professional photographer, he produced the first known photographic record of early Bendigo but later sought to change his financial fortunes by painting. In 1868 ...
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.
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 ...
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. ...
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' ...
Gritten, Henry, b. 1818
Henry Gritten was a painter and professional photographer. He 'enjoyed the favour of Prince Albert, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Westminster'. Gritten ...
Hainsselin, Henry, b. 1820
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 ...
Hughes, Henry
Henry Hughes was a professional photographer and perhaps a painter who with James Hickford, produced a number of decorative transparencies on the occasion of the ...
Adamson, James Hazell, b. 1829
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
Guy, James, b. 1832
James Guy was a painter, scene-painter and professional photographer. He came to Sydney about 1856. In 1858 with his brother John he opened a photographic ...
Hall, James
Painter and amateur photographer, he exhibited in South Australia between 1847 and 1859.
Botterill, John, b. 1817
John Botterill worked as a professional photographer and oil miniaturist in the mid-19th century in Victoria. In 1853 he was part of the organising committee ...
Clark, John James, b. 1838
Watercolour painter, photographer, architect and engineer born in Liverpool, England. Resident of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia he was responsible for the ...
Haig, John, b.
portrait painter, professional photographer and civil servant, in 1858 he started a photography and portrait painting business in Warwick, Qld. A fourth generation Haig photographic ...
Henderson, John Black, b. 1827
Late colonial-era painter, sketcher, comic illustrator, amateur photographer and surveyor. A founding member of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870, Henderson showed six landscapes ...