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Cooke, Albert Charles, b. 1836
Late colonial era painter, engraver, cartoonist (attributed), illustrator and draughtsman.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dunnett, Frank C., b. 1822
Frank C. Dunnett was a painter, lithographer and surveyor. As a chronic asthmatic he was advised to leave Britain and so in about 1856 he ...
Du Cane, Edmund Frederick, b. 1830
Engaged as a Royal Engineer to superintend the works for the proposed convict establishment in Western Australia. Du Cane's sketches and paintings of exploratory expeditions, ...
Bennett, George, b. 1804
After two previous trips to Australia as a natural historian, George Bennett finally settled in Sydney in 1836 and worked as a medical practitioner. He ...
Gilks, Edward, b. 1822
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 ...
Ball, Adam Gustavus, b. 1821
Like so many artists of the period, Ball's job as a civil engineer allowed him to travel throughout South Australia recording scenes of outback life ...
Castella, Charles Hubert De, b. 1825
Painter, landowner and viticulturalist born in Switzerland. Resident of Yering and Ivanhoe, Vic. for many years. De Castella is credited as being both a talented ...
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 ...
Bull, Knud Geelmuyden, b. 1811
Painter, photographer and drawing master in Hobart and Sydney in the mid to late nineteeth century. Bull arrived in Australia as a convict, having been ...
Leake, Charles Henry, b. 1819
Sketcher, farmer and politician of German descent who resided in Tasmania.
Lloyd, Henry Grant, b. 1830
A prolific watercolourist painter and sketcher, Lloyd is known as 'Australia's peripatetic artist'. He travelled indefatigably throughout his long life, recording many landscapes in Australia, ...
MacCormac, Andrew, b. 1826
Male colonial painter of portraits, a few landscape and genre paintings, who mainly worked in South Australia, portraying the upper classes.
Macgeorge, James, b. 1832
Colonial architect who designed mostly churches in South Australia and was involved in founding the South Australian Society of the Arts.
Mann, John Frederick, b. 1819
Colonial era NSW sketcher, amateur photographer and surveyor. In 1846 Mann was second-in-command on Ludwig Leichhardt's second exploring expedition.
Mason, George, b. 1827
English colonial male wood engraver and painter who taught music and set up Brisbane's first theatre. Apart from being bankrupted twice, he advertised as an ...
King, Charles McArthur, b. 1824
Charles McArthur King, was a sketcher, pastoralist and magistrate. A sketchbook of coastal and landscape scenes, mostly of New Zealand, drawn between 1850 and 1899 ...
McCrae, George Gordon, b. 1833
Primarily a poet, McCrae kept a diary and sketched; his work was influenced by the Indigenous population at Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula. His ...