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 ...
Sketcher, amateur photographer and solicitor. Son of artist Mary Morton Allport. Allport was the first president of the Tasmanian Photographic, Science and Art Association, elected ...
A watercolour and natural history painter, many of Angas's sketches from his travels as a naturalist in the mid 1800s became the basis for lithographic ...
Pastoralist and member of parliament, John Howard Angas was also a natural history painter. He painted birds, insects, and flowers, but no surviving work is ...
Draughtsman and painter who exhibited his watercolours in Victoria, Queensland and London. Austin witnessed the arrival of the first gold escort and depicted this event ...
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...
Marriage and nine sons meant that Mary Ann Badgery never realised her ambitions to establish herself as an art teacher however she painted and exhibited ...
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 ...
Despite living mostly in New Zealand, Barraud spent several years in Victoria and in 1854 he exhibited several paintings, all of New Zealand scenes, at ...
N. Bartley was an artist and/or an exhibitor at the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880. There is some speculation Bartley is the author Naham Bartley.
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 ...
Born into a privileged family, Beauchamp married an heiress after travelling between England, New Zealand and Victoria for a number of years. They finally settled ...
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 ...
Emigrating from the USA, William True Bennett was a highly regarded photographer who lived and worked mostly in Queensland. The nineteenth-century equivalent to the modern ...