Trained as a civil engineer, Woodbury honed his photography skills on the goldfields of Melbourne before making his way as a professional photographer to Indonesia ...
Woodhouse became best known for painting every Melbourne Cup winner for more than thirty years, from 1861. During a long, successful and prolific career, he ...
Professional photographer, worked at Sandhurst (Bendigo) and then Melbourne from the late 1860s. Wren returned to Sandhurst following the news of his young son's attempted ...
Professional photographer, worked at Sturt Street, Ballarat, Victoria, between 1865 and 1873. He exhibited an untitled 'picture' at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition in 1866, probably ...
Thomas Wright was a painter, professional photographer and prospector. According to William Moore, Wright was a pupil of the popular English landscape painter and Royal ...
Painter and professional photographer who exhibited portraits, genre paintings and drawings in Victoria in the 1850s and 1860s. As a travelling photographer, Wyatt visited South ...
Victorian government botanist. Von Mueller took an interest in painting, sending his view of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens by Rasmiss to the 1869 Melbourne Public ...
Colonial female who painted for distraction, while her family was parodied in her nephew's novels as the product of a nouveau-riche convict father, whose descendants ...
This sketcher,lawyer and member of the Victorian Legislative Council held ministerial posts and was a trustee of the Melbourne Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum. ...
Family members and professional photographers, all three worked in George Street, Sydney, at various times from 1865. One of their more unusual commissions was to ...