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David Strachan

by Strachan, David.

National retrospective touring exhibition of David Strachan's paintings and etchings. Curated by Daniel Thomas for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Because of Strachan's ...

Archer, Charles, b. 1813
Charles Archer made numerous maps and drawings of Queensland and is considered one of its major early artists. A member of the enterprising colonial Archer ...
Backler, Joseph, b. 1813
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...
Bennett, William True
Emigrating from the USA, William True Bennett was a highly regarded photographer who lived and worked mostly in Queensland. The nineteenth-century equivalent to the modern ...
Brady, Joseph, b. 1828
Mainly a surveyor and civil engineer, Brady is known for two watercolour sketches that were executed in Melbourne shortly after his arrival in Australia.
Brissenden, Edwin Torrens
Edwin Torrens Brissenden advertised him as a photographer well-versed in all known photographic processes of the day.
Brown, Joseph Lyne
Renowned for his caustic wit later in life as an alderman on Cairns City Council, as a photographer Brown is best known for popularising the ...
Chandler, Andrew
Professional photographer. Took photographs in all the eastern colonies of Australia, except Tasmania.
Clark, John James, b. 1838
Watercolour painter, photographer, architect and engineer born in Liverpool, England. Resident of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia he was responsible for the ...
Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Henry John, b. 1832
Watercolourist and politician. In accordance with the social mores of the time, he painted only for his own pleasure and that of his family and ...
Dumaresq, Susan Frances Sophia, b. 1832
A nineteenth-century amateur sketcher and member of the well-known Dumaresq family. She trained with Conrad Martens before marrying the son of the Earl of Hopetoun ...
Field, Henry, b.
A professional photographer who came to Victoria from England in the mid 1850s, presumably - and unsuccessfully - in search of gold. In the late ...
Fyans, Foster, b. 1790
Although known more for his eccentricities and lively memoirs than his art, Fyans was a sophisticated watercolourist. He is known for a fine picture of ...
Goodes, Henry, b. 1840
professional photographer who advertised his images as 'a faultless likeness of those who are near and dear to you'.
Hazelton, Alfred William, b. 1816
Professional photographer and schoolteacher, Hazelton practiced in Queensland in the mid 1850s. Later moving with his wife and children to Sydney, where he continued as ...
Henning, Rachel Biddulph, b. 1826
Sketcher and letter-writer, she is primarily known for her letters which describe rural life in Australia, particularly that on her brother's Queensland property, in the ...
Hodgson, Eliza, b. 1820
Painter and sketcher, was born in England and came to Sydney in 1828. In 1842 she moved to Queensland with her husband where she became ...
Huxley, Thomas, b. 1825
Thomas Henry Huxley was a sketcher, amateur photographer, biologist, anthropologist, philosopher and scientific publicist. Appointed assistant surgeon and naturalist to HMS 'Rattlesnake' he was part ...
Insley, Lawson
Photographer, specialised in portraiture and travelled from Sydney to New Zealand and eventually to Queensland with his business.
Landsborough, William, b. 1825
Sketcher, explorer and resident of NSW and Qld. Celebrated as the first explorer to cross the continent (Australia) from north to south.