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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 ...
Archer, Alexander, b. 1828
Member of a large enterprising colonial family which included a number of fellow artists, Archer worked for a number of years for the Bank of ...
Campbell, Oswald Rose, b. 1820
Leading colonial art teacher and painter.
Castle, Edward, b. 1822
Illustrator and pastoralist born in Gloucestershire. Resident of South Australia, he drew scenes of bush life.
Chevalier, Nicholas, b. 1828
Painter, lithographer and illustrator born in St Petersburg, Russia. Resident of Melbourne, New Zealand and England. Chevalier was a leading and somewhat flamboyant figure in ...
Cruikshank, George, b. 1792
19th century English cartoonist who drew several cartoons with colonial Australian themes.
Daplyn, Alfred James, b. 1844
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...
Fernyhough, William Henry, b. 1809
Fernyhough produced silhouette portraits of Sydney personalities and of Aborigines. He is believed to have introduced zincography to New South Wales.
Gill, John, b. 1797
Colonial era Victorian architect and attributed cartoonist.
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Gill, Samuel, b. 1818
Colonial era watercolourist, lithographer and presumably photographer who documented exploration and the Gold Rush in Australia.
Goodwin, William Lushington, b. 1798
Colonial Tasmanian engraver, amateur photographer, newspaper editor and merchant mariner. As the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, Goodwin regularly upset his readers and members of ...
Leech, John, b. 1817
Mid 19th century English cartoonist whose work included references to the Australian Gold rush of the 1850s.
Leigh, W. H.
Sketcher, ship's surgeon and author who visited Kangaroo Island in April 1837 on board the vessel 'South Australia'. He later visited Adelaide and Sydney before ...
Levinge,
Illustrator, illuminator and designer, illuminated an address presented to Rev. Dr John Bede Polding, in the late 1840s. It was later praised as a masterpiece ...
Mason, Cyrus, b. 1829
English colonial male lithographer, watercolourist, and draughtsman. His diverse career included writing and illustrating children's books, teaching, publishing newspapers, public speaking and founding music and ...
Mason, Walter, b. 1820
English colonial male wood-engraver and painter who studied in the USA and London. He was known to be generous for various causes, even though he ...
Mitford, Eustace Reveley, b. 1811
Colonial era Adelaide cartoonist, illustrator, journalist, sailor and farmer
Newall, Thomas Agar, b.
Colonial era Sydney painter, caricaturist, illustrator, journalist and publican. Newall was also a renowned marksman who apparently bet a case of champagne that he could ...
Nixon, Frederick Robert, b. 1817
Colonial era Adelaide cartoonist, sketcher, etcher, journalist and surveyor.
Norton, Charles, b. 1826
Colonial era Victorian sketcher, cartoonist, amateur photographer(?), architect, squatter and civil servant.