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Meldrum, Max, b. 1875
After winning a National Gallery School Travelling Scholarship and moving to Paris to study, Scottish-born painter Max Meldrum found himself out of sympathy with the ...
Merfield, Bertha Elizabeth, b. 1869
Known for her mural paintings in Victoria, Bertha E. Merfield was a pioneer of landscape painting among female artists in Australia. Her mural for the ...
Meston, Walter Paterson, b. 1870
Sign writer and painter who was an exhibiting member of the West Australian Society of Arts and served as its president in 1924-1927.
Miethke, Adelaide, b. 1881
Teacher, inspector, unionist and organiser, in South Australia. When the former Women Assistants' Association (SA) became the Women Teachers' Association in 1906 she was elected ...
Minns, B.E., b. 1863
B.E. Minns was introduced to art by the young Charles Conder, with whom he shared rooms in the 1880s. He soon developed a successful career ...
Moore-Jones, Horace, b. 1868
Painters Horace and Anne Moore-Jones were exhibiting with the Art Society of NSW in the 1890s.
Mort, Eirene, b. 1879
Designer and craftworker, Sydney, NSW, she was a prolific designer of textiles and various Applied Arts, often featuring Australian floral motifs, and was well known ...
Mouritzen, Frederick Christian, b. 1862
Architect and pottery entrepreneur was born in 1862 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mouritzen designed hotels in Boddington, Brookton, and Kunnunoppin. In 1921 he started the Calyx ...
Muntz, Josephine, b. 1862
Painter, residing in Melbourne, she diverged from standard patterns of taste in her use of a sombre palette and free, expressive brushwork. She exhibited internationally, ...
Murphy, E. Ashton, b. 1874
Federation era Brisbane (and Toowoomba ?) black-and-white artist. In the 1920s he was employed by Joseph Cornelius Marconi to draw cartoons and do graphic designs ...
Muskett, Alice Jane, b. 1869
Federation era painter, illustrator and author. Residing for most of her life in Sydney, she was internationally exhibited.
Newell, Alice, b. 1876
Painter, craftworker and one of the founders of Castlemaine Art Gallery.
Newman, Ada Ione, b. 1869
Painter, china painter and potter. With Dorothy Wilson and about half a dozen others, Ada Newman was a founding member of the Arts and Crafts ...
Nichols, Mary, b. 1837
Nichols came from an artistic family and is believed to have been enthusiastic about sketching, however there is no existing work.
Nixon, Charles Millington, b. 1870
The third generation in a family of photographers, Charles Nixon practiced as a photographic artist and landscape photographer. He was based at Kapunda in South ...
Norman, Herbert Hayes, b. 1843
A dentist, sketcher and amateur photographer. He exhibited some photographs at a South Australian exhibition in 1859. Although he spent his time working as a ...
Norriss Tait, Bess, b. 1878
A miniaturist and watercolourist. In London she was renowned for her miniatures and exhibited them at the New Salon in Paris and the Royal Academy ...
Nuttall, Charles, b. 1872
Federation era Melbourne painter, cartoonist, illustrator, etcher and journalist. Nuttall was colour-blind, so specialised in black and white work and monochrome paintings from which his ...
Oats, Sidney Albert Boriston, b. 1874
Sidney Oats was a photographer based at Kapunda in South Australia’s Barossa Valley, where he was an active member of the town’s photographic club. He ...
Officer, Edward Cairns, b. 1871
Early 20th century landscape painter