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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 ...
Bateman, Edward La Trobe, b. 1816
Although seeking his fortune in the Victorian goldfields, Edward La Trobe Bateman instead drifted into work as an illustrator and landscape designer. One of his ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Calvert, Samuel, b. 1828
A prolific painter and wood-engraver published in nearly all the Melbourne illustrated papers and periodicals. Taught painting, designing, etching and engraving by his father.
Campbell, Oswald Rose, b. 1820
Leading colonial art teacher and painter.
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 ...
Cooke, Albert Charles, b. 1836
Late colonial era painter, engraver, cartoonist (attributed), illustrator and draughtsman.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fraser, James Tatton B.
James Tatton B. Fraser was a sketcher and explorer. Yet his images were not included in fellow explorer Robert Austin's published journal of their expedition. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hinder, Edward Robert, b. 1829
Sketcher and teacher, was born in India,, he came to Adelaide in 1846 then moved to NSW soon after. He had no formal art training, ...
Huyghue, Samuel Douglas Smith, b. 1815
Samuel Douglas Smith Huyghue was a sketcher and public servant. His watercolour drawing titled 'Eureka Stockade' is held at Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, in Victoria.
Joubert, Jules François De Sales, b. 1824
Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...
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 ...