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Bates, J. W.
Serpentine sculptor and engraver he was possibly the son of Thomas William Bates stonemason, woodcarver and monumental mason who arrived in 1842 and worked in ...
Bundock, Mary, b. 1845
Bundock was only eight years old when discovered her love of flower painting, when family friend and flower painter Bessie Wilson gave her "a small ...
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Campbell, John, b. 1855
Scenic painter and decorator who worked in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. Campbell also painted views of places and buildings around Perth.
Carter, Irene, b. 1900
Irene Carter was born in 1900. She was a painter, musician and teacher who won the watercolour section of the Art Competition in 1951. Carter ...
Clifton, William Pearce, b. 1816
Amateur photographer, farmer and magistrate. Resident of Western Australia his photographs of Fremantle in the late 1860s are considered to be among the best photographs ...
Cowan, Jessie Shippard, b. 1845
Jessie Shippard Cowan was a painter, art teacher and a silk painter. Her eldest sister Agnes and Mrs Knight opened a boarding school in Perth ...
Currie, Jane Eliza, b. 1794
Miniature and watercolour painter, born in England, UK. Resident of Western Australia she painted some of earliest known views taken in the area.
Ferry, Allan, b. 1825
Listed as a Toodyay cabinetmaker in the 1879-1884 Almanacks.
Glaskin, Frederic
Perth-based goldsmith and soap maker who was a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and exhibited at the Perth International Exhibition of 1881.
Goatcher, Phil, b. 1851
Phillip William Goatcher, a theatrical scene painter, was born in England in 1851, trained in 1867 as an apprentice scene painter in Melbourne, where he ...
Hack, Wilton, b. 1843
Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...
Henderson, Edmund Yeamans Walcott, b. 1821
Watercolour painter, architect, engineer, administrator and police commissioner, between 1850 and 1863 he worked in Fremantle WA where he designed some significant buildings. He also ...
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 ...
Manning, James, b. 1845
Male colonial photographer who travelled to Europe and rural WA, after settling in Fremantle, and established a reputable business in Perth on his return.
Manning, Jane, b. 1849
Female colonial photographer who briefly owned a photographic business. Afterwards she worked with her brother and without professional recognition, until she got married.
Nixon, Stephen Edward, b. 1842
Stephen Nixon was primarily a portrait photographer, based in South Australia during the nineteenth century. For some time he was considered Kapunda’s resident photographer, where ...
Pickering, Alfred, b. 1835
Professional photographer, taught by brother Charles Percy Pickering. A travelling photographer specialised in photographing tombstones in rural NSW, 1870s-1880s. He is said to have photographed ...
Pincott, Henry Stow, b. 1848
Henry Stow (Harry) Pincott was a painter, teacher and a scene-painter. He worked at the Theatre Royal, Hobart Town. In 1876 and 1880 Pincott worked ...
Prinsep, Henry Charles, b. 1844
Harry Prinsep was active in many parts of Western Australian society. Trained in Law and associated with the east India Company he worked as a ...
Rossiter, Joseph, b. 1840
Artist, engraver and drawing teacher. In 1880 Rossiter was at Trotter's High School in Fremantle.