Biriban or Johnny McGill was best known as a language informant for the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld a Minister and linguist in the 1830s. Threlkeld thought ...
Lithographer and architect. Following a ship wreck off South America, Atkinson arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1833. While waiting for a government position, Atkinson ...
Charles Berkeley emigrated to South Australia where he joined the police ranks after a failed attempt at farming. An occasional sketcher known only for an ...
David Beveridge Adamson emigrated to South Australia in 1839. He designed and produced toys, mechanical appliances and scientific instruments, the latter of which he used ...
Alfred D. Douglass was a sketcher, businessman and newspaper proprietor. He came from Scotland to Van Diemen's Land in 1835. Douglass was a proprietor of ...
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Augustus Earle travelled extensively during his lifetime, producing paintings and lithographs of his travels in the Mediterranean, North & South America, the Pacific and Atlantic ...
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 ...
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 ...
Colonial Sydney sketcher and medical practitioner. Fowles is known for his detailed diaries, containing both written and sketched representations of Sydney life.
A teacher who advertised in 1835 that he would be opening an 'Academy for young gentlemen' in Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, where drawing would be ...
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 ...
George Bayly followed in the family tradition of seafaring and sailed to the far corners of the British Empire. He kept meticulous diaries, including pen-and-ink ...