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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...