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Abbott, John, b. 1803
This sketcher, watercolourist and songwriter became the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in Van Diemen's Land in the mid nineteenth century. His watercolours were ...
Abbott, W., b.
W. Abbott made seven watercolour sketches on a voyage to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on board the barque Calcutta in 1840.
Abel, August Theodor, b. 1802
This chemist, mineralogist and amateur artist had an interest in religious art. A German immigrant, he settled in Ballarat, becoming an active member of the ...
Adams, James, b. 1816
James Adams, and his father, William, worked on a property at Dundas, New South Wales. It is unclear whether James or his father are responsible ...
Adams, William, b. 1776
William Adams and his son James, also an artist, worked on a property at Dundas, New South Wales. It is unclear whether William or James ...
Adamson, John
Scottish colonial male draughtsman whose sketches and paintings of Melbourne were reproduced as lithographs even after his sudden death at sea en route to Calcutta. ...
Adamson, David Beveridge, b. 1823
David Beveridge Adamson emigrated to South Australia in 1839. He designed and produced toys, mechanical appliances and scientific instruments, the latter of which he used ...
Adeney, William, b.
Male colonial sketcher who drew landscapes throughout his migration to Australia. He eventually squatted in the Western District of Victoria where he pursued an anthropological ...
Agate, Alfred Thomas, b. 1812
American male colonial botanical and portrait sketcher who visited Australia as part of the 1838-1842 USA World Expedition. Agate remained in Sydney drawing NSW landscapes ...
Akers, Charles Style, b.
English colonial Royal engineer whose watercolours and drawings of Tasmanian scenery belied his frustration at having received such a far-flung posting. He later painted icebergs ...
Aldis, William Henry, b. 1805
Colonial male tobacconist and sketcher whose only known work is a marine watercolour. Aldis is better known for his tobacco shop, which was a popular ...
Allan, H. R. W.
Colonial lithographer who produced a landscape of Melbourne suburbs and a portrait of Berebahori, a New South Wales Aboriginal. Both works are held in the ...
Allport, Curzon, b. 1837
Sketcher, amateur photographer and solicitor. Son of artist Mary Morton Allport. Allport was the first president of the Tasmanian Photographic, Science and Art Association, elected ...
Allport, Francis Evett, b. 1843
Francis Allport was the son and pupil of sketcher Mary Morton Allport. Examples of his work are preserved in Mary's 'Book of Treasures' which is ...
Allport, Gordon, b. 1845
Child artist, son of sketcher Mary Morton Allport whose artistic skills were sadly not fully realised because he drowned aged five. Examples of early drawings ...
Allport, Henry Curzon, b. 1788
Watercolour painter. He was a contemporary and pupil of John Glover and brother to Joseph Allport, sister-in-law to Mary Morton Allport. Member of the Old ...
Allport, John Ireland, b. 1829
Son of sketcher Henry Curzon Allport. A pencil sketch by John Allport is held in the Mitchell Library, another is in the Allport Collection in ...
Allport, Mary Louise, b. 1832
Only daughter of sketcher Mary Morton Allport. Minnie Allport's work mainly consisted of delicate watercolours of native Australian flowers, both single specimens and decorative bunches.
Allport, Mary Morton, b. 1806
Painter of landscapes, flowers, natural history studies and portrait miniatures. Allport's etchings, engravings and lithographs were the first to have been made by a woman ...
Angas, George French, b. 1822
A watercolour and natural history painter, many of Angas's sketches from his travels as a naturalist in the mid 1800s became the basis for lithographic ...