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Wait, Marion, b. 1956
Walker, George
Painter and professional photographer, exhibited artworks, mainly copies, at the Melbourne Exhibition, 1854 and Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Although listed in the Melbourne Directory as ...
Walker, Theresa, b. 1807
Walker received little formal education, but as a young woman showed considerable talent in the art of modelling. She would become very well known for ...
Wallace-Crabbe, Kenneth Eyre Inverell, b. 1900
Mid 20th century Melbourne painter, printmaker, journalist and publisher.
Waller, Ruth, b. 1955
Ruth Waller is a painter and illustrator. She received a Diploma of Art from Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Sydney in 1978, and lectured ...
Walsh, Lawrence W.
painter and professional photographer of Heathcote, Victoria. Exhibited examples of his original oil and watercolour paintings at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition
Watkins, John Samuel, b. 1866
John Samuel Watkins (1866-1942) was an English born portrait painter. He is best known for operating a popular Sydney based art school during the early ...
Welch, Edwin J.
Along with James Murray, Welch was the expedition photographer for the Victorian government relief party to the Burke and Wills expedition in 1861. Welch had ...
West, Frederick Temple
Photographer and marine artist, had a photographic studio in Newcastle from 1895 to 1901. He employed artists including Reginald Borstel and Alfred Dufty to do ...
Whitesides, Vera Lindsay, b. 1886
Described as a women of charm, Vera was a versatile artist proficient in a wide range of art and craft media. Best known in her ...
Williams, Henry
Colonial male oil painter, watercolourist and photographer from Hobart Town who painted children and hunters.
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 ...
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, 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 ...
Wright, Thomas, b. 1830
Thomas Wright was a painter, professional photographer and prospector. According to William Moore, Wright was a pupil of the popular English landscape painter and Royal ...
Wyatt, Thomas J. J.
Painter and professional photographer who exhibited portraits, genre paintings and drawings in Victoria in the 1850s and 1860s. As a travelling photographer, Wyatt visited South ...
Wyman, Jemima, b. 1977
Jemima Wyman was born in Sydney in 1977 and lives and works in Brisbane and Los Angeles.
Australian Enlarging and Portrait Paintings Co.
The Australian Enlarging and Portrait Paintings Company exhibited at the 1888-1889 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition.