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Varvaressos, Vicki, b. 1949
Vicki Varvaressos is a Sydney based artist whose early work was influenced by the urban activism of Victoria street, in Sydney's Wooloomooloo. Her distinctive painterly ...
Vawser,
Mrs Vawser was a drawing teacher in Hobart Town from 1834 to 1835. Offering to teach Breidon's new style of drawing, in 1835 samples of ...
Venables, Henry Pares, b. 1830
Henry Pares Venables was a sketcher who travelled to Victoria from England in 1853 with Henry Kingsley, both lured by the goldrush. Three sketches by ...
Verguet, Leopold
One of a group of French Marist priests who visited Sydney in 1845 en route to a new mission in the Solomon Islands. Verguet made ...
Vernon, Olive, b. 1874
A Federation-era Sydney cartoonist and sketcher, Olive Vernon was a member of NSW Government Architect Walter Liberty Vernon's family. Her sketches are held in the ...
Vial, William, b. 1821
coach-builder, who may have sketched the scene where he intervened in the attempted assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf Beach, Sydney on 12 ...
Vidal, Mary Therese, b. 1815
A miniature painter and sketcher whose works are held in the National Library of Australia, Vidal is better known as a novelist and is considered ...
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 ...
Vincent, Annette, b. 1946
As both scientist and artist Vincent is a keen sketcher and etcher who takes every opportunity to draw what see sees, especially the degradation of ...
Vogan, Arthur J.
Sketcher, drew a watercolour sketch dated 25 October 1888, 'Work of the Black Police where the black-camp was destroyed', in his album. It is now ...
W., H. J.
Sketcher, drew a pencil and watercolour sketch of a woman and child (photograph Mitchell Library), thought to be members of the family of the Sydney ...
W., H. M.
H.M.W was a sketcher. Their signed watercolour of Government House in Sydney, dated 1866, is held in the Mitchell Library at the State Library of ...
W., J. C.
Little is known about this colonial artist except that he possessed admirable drawing skills. It is unfortunate that only one example survives of his talent.
W., R.
Late colonial period caricaturist whose portrait of Phil May is held by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
W., T.
sketcher, of Aboriginal portraits from the Portland district of NSW (now Victoria) and views of Tasmania. The drawings are mainly in pencil with a few ...
Wainewright, Thomas, b. 1794
Painter, journalist and convict from a well connected family. Transported to Hobart Town in 1837. His many portraits provide pictorial documentation of personalities in Hobart ...
Waite, James Clarke, b. 1832
Waite's oil paintings now sell for respectable prices, his notoriety in large part due to his being a contemporary of the Boer War. His work ...
Walkden,
sketcher and governess, drew a pen-and-ink view of Wermatong Selection Home on the Tumut Plains, NSW, while employed as governess to the children of George ...
Walker, George Washington, b. 1800
Quaker missionary, accompanied his friend James Backhouse on a mission that included many parts of Australia. Throughout his travels, he kept a journal that included ...
Wall, Dorothy, b. 1894
Wall was a mid 20th century Sydney and New Zealand illustrator and author whose published work, while considerable, does not accurately reflect just how much ...