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Thomas, George H.
Colonial-era Victorian and Tasmanian caricaturist, Thomas was awarded damages of 15 shillings when the subject of one of his caricatures destroyed the illustration as it ...
Thomas, William, b. 1822
W.R. Thomas was a competent watercolourist and a number of his works survive in private homes in South Australia.
Thomson, George
Colonial era Victorian sketcher.
Tracy, George Wingfield, b.
Tracy was born in Ireland. After arriving in Australia, he joined his brother and a small party to prospect for gold in Adelaide. His only ...
Tulloch, David, b. 1829
Illustrator and engraver, was commissioned by Thomas Ham in 1851 to sketch some of the earliest known views of the Victorian diggings. Tulloch contributed an ...
Turner, Joseph
Star struck photographer who, in his later career was appointed to the Melbourne Observatory.
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Turner, Thomas, b. 1813
An architect, surveyor and selector, his drawings show a sharp eye for domestic detail and include humble buildings and people going about their everyday life.
Twentyman, G. O.
Artisan, expert heraldic painter etc, well represented for his craftsmanship in Australia and England.
Tyne, J.
Professional photographer from Melbourne. Tyne was listed as 'Professor of Photography' in 1853.
Urie, James, b. 1828
Slater & Glazier, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. He was an apprentice of James Ferguson in Wallacetown, Ayr. Both men came to Australia in late 1852 ...
Varley, Frank
Frank Varley was a colonial period Victorian painter, scene-painter, cartoonist, caricaturist and lithographer who eventually settled in New Zealand. With R.J. Morressy, Varley founded the ...
Vieusseux, Julie Elizabeth Agnes, b. 1820
Oil Painter, art teacher and proprietor, with her husband, of an élite ladies' college in Melbourne. Vieusseux's portrait of painter Eugene von Guérard is held ...
Wade, William Richard, b. 1803
Drawing teacher, curator and librarian, Wade was also a clergyman before his unorthodox views on baptism forced him into retirement. He is probably best known ...
Walker, George
Painter and professional photographer, exhibited artworks, mainly copies, at the Melbourne Exhibition, 1854 and Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Although listed in the Melbourne Directory as ...
Walker, Theresa, b. 1807
Walker received little formal education, but as a young woman showed considerable talent in the art of modelling. She would become very well known for ...
Ward, Edward, b. 1823
Deputy Master of the Royal Mint in both Sydney and later Melbourne. Practiced wet-plate (collodion) photography. Exhibited at the second photographic conversazione of the Philosophical ...
Wathen, George Henry, b. 1818
George Henry Wathen's observations of goldfields' life were recorded in his book 'The Golden Colony or, Victoria in 1854'. This was illustrated, with his own ...
Watts,
Scene-painter who painted scenery for a performance at the Queen's Theatre, Melbourne in 1850. In 1867 he executed a large transparency in oils for the ...
Webb, Alexander James, b. 1813
oil and watercolour painter. Migrated to Victoria about 1855 and settled in Geelong. His work consisted mainly of landscapes, most of which were done in ...
Weidenbach, Max, b. 1823
Painter, Egyptologist and Prussian consul to South Australia. A watercolour sketch of Glen Osmond in 1849 from the Chimney Hill showing the Miners' Arms Hotel, ...