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Adamson, David Beveridge, b. 1823
David Beveridge Adamson emigrated to South Australia in 1839. He designed and produced toys, mechanical appliances and scientific instruments, the latter of which he used ...
Addison, George Henry Male, b. 1858
George Addison was a colonial male architect and artist.
Aikenhead, William, b. 1842
An avid amateur photographer and professional journalist. Aikenhead held many public offices and was active in local Tasmanian politics until his death.
Alder, Anthony, b. 1838
Anthony Alder was a Brisbane-based taxidermist who is also known for his paintings of Australian fauna, particularly ornithological subjects.
Alexander, J.
Female colonial wood carver and craft worker who exhibited her wares, including two carved mirrors, at the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879. Given that near ...
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Allerding, Frederick, b. 1815
Allerding was a jeweller and amateur photographer known to be in Sydney, NSW in 1872.
Allom, William Jamieson, b. 1832
Ancestor of Brisbane architect, Richard Allom, he painted panoramic oils of the North Queensland landscape and portraits of politicians.
Allport, Curzon, b. 1837
Sketcher, amateur photographer and solicitor. Son of artist Mary Morton Allport. Allport was the first president of the Tasmanian Photographic, Science and Art Association, elected ...
Anderson, Robert
Colonial Sydney and Blue Mountains painter and sketcher who exhibited as an amateur at the NSW Academy of Art's sixth annual exhibition in 1877. Nearly ...
Andrews, M. A.
A prolific and award-winning needleworker, M.A. Andrews exhibited with the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW and at the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879 and the ...
Andrews, William, b. 1840
Oil and watercolour painter of Sydney landscapes in the mid to late 1800s. Andrews was a regular exhibitor with the Art Society of New South ...
Angas, George French, b. 1822
A watercolour and natural history painter, many of Angas's sketches from his travels as a naturalist in the mid 1800s became the basis for lithographic ...
Angas, John Howard, b. 1823
Pastoralist and member of parliament, John Howard Angas was also a natural history painter. He painted birds, insects, and flowers, but no surviving work is ...
Anivitti, Giulio, b. 1850
Painter and art teacher. Anivitti was the first teacher of painting and curator of the picture collection at the NSW Academy of Art.
Anivitti, J. N.
Anivitti was a Sydney-based photographer practicing during the 1870s-1880s.
Anson, Joshua, b. 1854
Joshua Anson was a photographer, one of the Anson Brothers photographic firm in Hobart with Henry Joseph Anson and Richard Edwin Anson. In a court ...
Appleton, L.
Appleton was an engraver working in Sydney during the late nineteenth century.
Armstrong, Mary Ann, b. 1838
Mary Ann Armstrong (1838-1910) was a botanical fern artist who participated in a number of international and intercolonial exhibitions. She compiled and artistically arranged fern ...
Ashton, George Rossi, b. 1857
Painter, illustrator and cartoonist, came to Australia at the encouragement of his brother Julian Ashton. Remained in Australia for 14 years mainly working as an ...
Audet, Elizabeth
Wife and presumed business partner of Maitland and Newcastle (NSW) photographer Jacob D. Audet, whom she married in Sydney in 1859.