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Welch, W. J.
Commercial artist, painted murals inside shops and inns and provided scenery for local theatrical productions. Welch also painted landscapes in oils.
West, E. H.
Watercolour painter and designer, appears to have been in Sydney in the late 1840s when she painted a watercolour, Henrietta Villa, Eliza Point, Rose Bay.
Westall, William, b. 1781
William Westall was the appointed landscape artist on Matthew Flinders' 1801 "Investigator" expedition which was the first maritime circumnavigation of Australia.
Westmacott, Robert Marsh, b. 1801
Sketcher, army officer and pioneer, is best known for his Sketches in Australia, a volume of eighteen tinted lithographic views each preceded by a short ...
Weston, William Pritchard, b. 1804
Elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and twice served short terms as premier. His fifteen known drawings in pencil, pen-and-ink and wash originally in ...
Wetzel,
Painter, is known only as the artist of the unlocated Portrait of Mr Menge.
Wheeler, Charles
Sketcher and Quaker missionary he visited Tasmania in 1834 while on a mission tour of the South Sea islands and eastern Australia, arriving in Sydney ...
White, Una, b. 1842
Illustrator, was the youngest daughter of George Cox, a descendant of William Cox. Some of her sketches were used to illustrate her father's George Cox ...
Whitehead, Isaac, b. 1819
Isaac Whitehead was a painter, watercolourist, pastellist, picture-framer and art promoter. He must have come to Victoria with his family in about 1858, according to ...
Whitfield, George
Painter, worked in Sydney from the mid-1840s to the mid 1850s.
Wickham, George
Oil painter, showed three paintings in the second exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia at Sydney in 1849.
Wickham, John Clements, b. 1798
English naval officer and police magistrate who would marry into the Macarthur family after serving on the Beagle for over a decade. In the course ...
Wilkinson, H.
Colonial male herald painter whose business may have included painting family crests on carriages.
Wilkinson, Robert Edmund Alfred
Colonial male sketcher who drew an original homestead in Tombong while on holiday before returning to his day job at the Bank of NSW. He ...
Williams, Florence Elizabeth, b. 1833
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Williams, Henry
Colonial male oil painter, watercolourist and photographer from Hobart Town who painted children and hunters.
Willis, James A. C., b. 1834
Colonial male surveyor whose amateur watercolour drawings of landscapes received certificates of merit and were published as lithographs.
Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Wilson, James, b. 1827
James Glen Wilson was a landscape painter, naval photographer and surveyor. Irish born, Wilson was chosen to accompany the expedition to the South Seas. This ...
Wilson, James, b. 1804
James Armstrong Wilson was a portrait and figure painter born in Scotland. A resident of Sydney and surrounding areas he drowned in a storm with ...