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Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Beechey, Richard Brydges, b. 1808
While Richard Brydes Beechey painted a scene of Lt. Stokes discovering Victoria River, he is not known to have ever visited Australia though he travelled ...
Behl, John Valentine, b. 1836
John Valentine Behl emigrated from Germany to New South Wales in about 1857 and worked briefly as a professional photographer in Elizabeth Street, Sydney - ...
Bell, Thomas, b. 1798
After emigrating from Ireland, Thomas Bell and his family lived on the land in New South Wales. After his wife died, Bell placed an advertisement ...
Benham, Ann Maria, b. 1837
Ann Maria Benham migrated to South Australia as a child and later began exhibiting her paintings with the South Australian Society of Arts. She is ...
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 ...
Bennett, William True
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 ...
Benson, William, b. 1812
William Benson settled in Ballarat in 1853 and his view of a Ballarat street is now in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
Bentley, James F.
The State Library of Tasmania holds three pencil drawings by James Bentley that depict various views of Tasmania drawn in about 1850.
Berger, Frederick W.
Frederick Berger exhibited a wet collodion photograph at the first exhibition organised by the British Photographic Society in London in 1854. There is some speculation ...
Berger, Heinrich
Heinrich Berger was an etcher and lithographer whose work can be found in several major national collections. His subject matter was mostly concerned with views ...
Berkeley, Charles
Charles Berkeley emigrated to South Australia where he joined the police ranks after a failed attempt at farming. An occasional sketcher known only for an ...
Berkeley, Martha Maria Snell, b. 1813
England-born resident of Australia's southern states, Berkeley is best known for her large watercolours of Adelaide and as a gifted portraitist. The Art Gallery of ...
Bernasconi, John
John Bernasconi turned a talent for woodcarving into a business as a picture framer. His award-winning work was exhibited both in Australia and overseas and ...
Bertenshaw, Thomas
Thomas Bertenshaw worked as a professional photographer who worked in Melbourne from the 1850s to the 1870s.
Bevan, Thomas
Thomas Bevan was a professional photographer in the nineteenth century who is known to have lived and practiced in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Bicheno, James Ebenezer, b. 1785
James Ebenezer Bicheno arrived in Van Dieman's Land for a position as Colonial Secretary. Active in the artistic community of Hobart in the 1840s and ...
Biggs, Alfred Barrett
Alfred Barrett Biggs worked as a photographic artist in Tasmania c.1860. Examples of his work are held in the Archives Office of Tasmania.
Bindon, Samuel Henry, b. 1812
Samuel Henry Bindon contributed his legal expertise in several positions in Victoria and was also heavily involved in a number of artistic organisations. An amateur ...
Bird, Eugene Miller
Eugene Miller Bird offered his services as a painter of pictures to order in Perth throughout the 1850s. He later went into partnership with M.E. ...