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White, Una, b. 1842
Illustrator, was the youngest daughter of George Cox, a descendant of William Cox. Some of her sketches were used to illustrate her father's George Cox ...
Whitehead, Isaac, b. 1819
Isaac Whitehead was a painter, watercolourist, pastellist, picture-framer and art promoter. He must have come to Victoria with his family in about 1858, according to ...
Whitfield, George
Painter, worked in Sydney from the mid-1840s to the mid 1850s.
Ligar, Charles Whybrow, b. 1811
Colonial New Zealand and Victorian sketcher, amateur photographer, lithographer, model-maker, cartographer, architect, surveyor and grazier
Wickham, George
Oil painter, showed three paintings in the second exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia at Sydney in 1849.
Wickham, John Clements, b. 1798
English naval officer and police magistrate who would marry into the Macarthur family after serving on the Beagle for over a decade. In the course ...
Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, b. 1799
A nineteenth-century watercolourist, he first turned to painting as a way out of debt. He subsequently painted historical views of Melbourne.
Blandowski, Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig, b. 1822
William Blandowski lived in Australia for almost a decade and in that time he explored tracts of Central Victoria and helped found the Geological Society ...
Wilkinson, H.
Colonial male herald painter whose business may have included painting family crests on carriages.
Wilkinson, Robert Edmund Alfred
Colonial male sketcher who drew an original homestead in Tombong while on holiday before returning to his day job at the Bank of NSW. He ...
Reveley, Henry Willey, b. 1788
English born Henry Willey Reveley, sketcher, architect and civil engineer, was responsible for the design and supervision of public works at Fremantle, Perth and outlying ...
Willis, James A. C., b. 1834
Colonial male surveyor whose amateur watercolour drawings of landscapes received certificates of merit and were published as lithographs.
Adams, William, b. 1776
William Adams and his son James, also an artist, worked on a property at Dundas, New South Wales. It is unclear whether William or James ...
Adeney, William, b.
Male colonial sketcher who drew landscapes throughout his migration to Australia. He eventually squatted in the Western District of Victoria where he pursued an anthropological ...
Aldis, William Henry, b. 1805
Colonial male tobacconist and sketcher whose only known work is a marine watercolour. Aldis is better known for his tobacco shop, which was a popular ...
Archer, William, b. 1820
Although best-known as an architect, William Archer was also a talented botanical artist. He assisted Dr Joseph Hooker at Kew Gardens with the 'Florae Tasmaniae' ...
Baker, William Kellett, b. 1806
A trained engraver, William Kellett Baker sold lithographic - often unauthorised prints of works by well known colonial artists including William Henry Fernyhough. As a ...
Bland, William
William Bland was a portrait painter in Sydney in the late 1840s. He exhibited with the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Australia ...
Boyes, George Thomas William Blamey, b. 1786
Like many early colonists in public service, George Boyes was able to pursue leisurely hobbies, such as watercolour painting; he preferred the landscape of Tasmania ...
Bunn, John William Buckle, b. 1830
Some crude pencil sketches of his homestead and the district of St. Omer are among the earliest known views of Canberra. Bunn contested his mother's ...