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Teague, Violet, b. 1872
A painter and printmaker, spent many of her informative years in Europe. While receiving numerous accolades and awards for her artistic practice, she was the ...
Commons, F. W.
Commons was a monumental mason, trained in Europe, who was commissioned to carve four allegorical figures for Parliament House, Melbourne, though it never eventuated due ...
Cook, Ebenezer Wake, b. 1844
Landscape painter and professional photographic colourist. Born in England and resident of Geelong and Melbourne, Victoria.
Bassett, Arthur Wakefield, b. 1869
Arthur Wakefield Bassett began his career in Victoria before moving to Western Australia in 1893 where he became an artist of note, winning the Perth ...
Barnett, H. Walter, b. 1862
A professional photographer working in Australia and Europe in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century, Barnett was arguably Australia's first world-class portrait photographer. His sitters ...
Forbes, Walter James Waldie, b. 1866
Walter James Waldie Forbes was born in 1866. He was an architect whose most important buildings were Dalgety Buildings, Fremantle, The Bon Marché Stores and ...
Jenner, Isaac Walter, b. 1836
Painter, was born in Surrey, England. He took up painting after retiring from the British Navy. Due to this, ships and marine scenes were popular ...
Rowbotham, Walter, b. 1878
Painter and teacher, won the Royal College of Art Scholarship and the Royal College of Art Travelling Scholarship. Rowbotham exhibited with West Australian Society of ...
Seehusen, Walter, b. 1842
Walter Seehusen was a painter who left his first wife and daughter in Schleswig Holstein in 1864 at the onset of the German-Danish war. In ...
Warren, Helena, b. 1871
Self-taught photographer who became both the local press correspondent and a producer of humorous trompe l'oeil postcard images.
Waterhouse, Mary Brough, b. 1853
Colonial artist, settled in Victoria, began woodcarving in the early 1900s.
Waugh, Hal, b. 1860
Painter, was born and apparently lived all his life at Eltham, Victoria. He mainly painted bush and country scenes, and spent some time painting with ...
Gilbert, Charles Web, b. 1867
Sculptor, trained at the National Gallery School, Melbourne and was a member of the Yarra Sculptors Society.
Weir, Margaret B., b. 1856
Weir was a painter, art teacher and gifted needleworker, though she regarded this element of her artistic life as a hobby. A student at the ...
Wenban, Raymond Stewart, b. 1893
Mid 20th century Sydney, Melbourne and London illustrator, painter and printmaker, Wenban studied art with Julian Ashton and Elioth Gruner. In 1954 he was one ...
Burtt, John Wesley, b. 1839
Burtt is a minor Victorian artist who created the large historical painting depicting John Batman meeting with Victorian Aboriginal Chiefs in 1835.
Weston, Henry John, b. 1874
Cartoonist, painter, commercial artist and architect. Weston was a member of many clubs and societies, and associated with many of Australia's now famous cartoonists and ...
Wheeler, Charles Arthur, b. 1880
painter and art teacher, Melbourne. His artwork 'The Fancy Dress' 1909 was shown in the Fine Art Society's Galleries, Melbourne. Another artwork of his is ...
White, John, b. 1851
Training in Melbourne in the 1860s and Edinburgh in the 1870s White's landscape, portrait and genre subject paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy and ...
Whiting, Ada, b. 1858
Oil and watercolour painter and miniaturist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania. She was a rapid worker, painting up to three miniatures a week, landscapes, flowers ...