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Williams, J. R.
Male colonial landscape painter and customs officer who exhibited extensively in Melbourne, despite a critic suggesting he could have made more of a view of ...
Williams, Thomas S.
Male colonial photographer with numerous businesses who made xylographs popular before a fire burnt down his Collins Street studio in Melbourne.
Williamson, C. A. H., b. 1807
Colonial male photographer whose diverse practice of producing wet-plate albumen prints, ambrotypes, alabastrine portraits and daguerreotypes seems to have existed for only two years before ...
Willis, James A. C., b. 1834
Colonial male surveyor whose amateur watercolour drawings of landscapes received certificates of merit and were published as lithographs.
Willson, John Henry, b. 1822
Architect, decorator and scene painter. As city architect he designed the present facade and vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall as well as the Woolloomooloo ...
Wilmot, George C.
Professional photographer, ran a Portrait Gallery at 31 Malop Street, West Geelong, Victoria, in 1865-86 in partnership with Key. Wilmot & Key photographed 'King Jerry, ...
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, Charles
Charles Wilson was a professional photographer who brought the sennotype process to Australia. He came to Melbourne in 1862 and claimed to own the Australian ...
Wilson, Emily M.
Sketcher, won the 3-guinea prize for the best drawing from the round at exhibitions of the South Australian Society of Arts in 1863 and 1865. ...
Wilson, John Noble, b. 1832
Wilson worked as a photographer in Ballarat from 1854. It is thought that he may have spent a year or two as a travelling photographer. ...
Wilson, Ralph, b. 1827
English colonial architect and watercolourist who designed half of Melbourne while continuing to paint despite one critic describing his art as curry powder and mouldy ...
Wilson, William H., b. 1795
Wilson was an illustrator and wood-engraver who came to Sydney in 1828 where he took up premises as one of the few commercial artist-engravers in ...
Wilson, William John, b. 1833
Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...
Wingate, Thomas, b. 1807
Retired army officer who came to Sydney in 1852. Wingate worked in the media of photography, painting and drawing. He exhibited a photographic panorama of ...
Winston, Charles Edward, b. 1825
Charles Edward Winston was a wood-engraver. He arrived in Adelaide from London in 1851. Winston worked in South Australia, Victoria, New Zealand and New South ...
Winter, Alfred, b. 1837
Alfred Winter was a sketcher and professional photographer. He exhibited at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition and was awarded an honourable mention for his work. ...
Winter, Richard William
Richard William Winter was a professional photographer and printer. He worked in partnership with his younger brother Alfred Winter in Melbourne in the 1860s.
Wirgman, Charles, b. 1832
English raised Japanese cartoonist and illustrator. It is asserted in some biographies that he worked in Australia during the mid 1850s.
Wiseman, William Saltonstall, b. 1814
British sketcher and naval officer who visited Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and New Hebrides in the 1860s. Wiseman recorded the places he visited in ink ...
Wittenoom, Charles, b. 1824
English born sketcher (attributed) who practiced in Perth during the late 1830s and again from the early 1860s, although it is probable that his uncle ...