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Barton, Emily Mary, b. 1817
Emigrating to Australia in 1839 with her parents, Emily Mary Barton married soon after and lived in rural New South Wales during which time she ...
Bass, William C.
Working Tasmania in 1855, William Bass specialised in portraiture advertising that he was happy to visit sitters in their own homes.
Batchelder, Nathaniel, b. 1827
Along with his brothers, Nathaniel Batchelder arrived in Australia in 1856 and set up a successful photography studio in Sydney from 1858 to 1860.
Bateman, Edward La Trobe, b. 1816
Although seeking his fortune in the Victorian goldfields, Edward La Trobe Bateman instead drifted into work as an illustrator and landscape designer. One of his ...
Bath, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bath exhibited her paintings and pastels at two exhibitions in Melbourne in 1857 and 1866.
Beamont, John, b. 1789
A committed public servant, John Beaumont held various positions in Hobart Town with the colonial administration. Only one known surviving sketch exists, which is now ...
Beauchamp, Robert Proctor, b. 1819
Born into a privileged family, Beauchamp married an heiress after travelling between England, New Zealand and Victoria for a number of years. They finally settled ...
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Beechey, Richard Brydges, b. 1808
While Richard Brydes Beechey painted a scene of Lt. Stokes discovering Victoria River, he is not known to have ever visited Australia though he travelled ...
Benham, Ann Maria, b. 1837
Ann Maria Benham migrated to South Australia as a child and later began exhibiting her paintings with the South Australian Society of Arts. She is ...
Benson, William, b. 1812
William Benson settled in Ballarat in 1853 and his view of a Ballarat street is now in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
Berkeley, Martha Maria Snell, b. 1813
England-born resident of Australia's southern states, Berkeley is best known for her large watercolours of Adelaide and as a gifted portraitist. The Art Gallery of ...
Bird, Eugene Miller
Eugene Miller Bird offered his services as a painter of pictures to order in Perth throughout the 1850s. He later went into partnership with M.E. ...
Bird, Thomas
A watercolourist, Thomas Bird painted several Tasmanian landscape scenes that are now held in various collections in Tasmania. There is some uncertainty as to the ...
Birrill, A.
A. Birrill's watercolour of a mine in Ballarat is held by the Mitchell Library. Given the date of its execution the work is thought to ...
Blackwood, William, b. 1824
Despite also being a portrait painter, it was as a professional photographer that Blackwood received the most acclaim. In 1858 he took 11 imperial size, ...
Bloxsome, Henrietta E.
Living in Australia for roughly two decades in the mid-19th century, a number of Henrietta Bloxsome's works survive in national collections. They variously depict scenes ...
Blyth, Eliza
Miss Blyth was a painter and art teacher who exhibited in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales despite living predominantly in Hobart, Tasmania. Formerly ...
Boardman, P.
P. Boardman exhibited three paintings at the 1857 Victorian Society of Fine Arts exhibition including a religious scene depicting the finding of Moses after the ...
Bock, Alfred, b. 1835
One of the pioneers of early photography in the 19th century along with his stepfather Thomas Bock, Alfred Bock also pursued a number of other ...