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Abbott, John, b. 1803
This sketcher, watercolourist and songwriter became the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in Van Diemen's Land in the mid nineteenth century. His watercolours were ...
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Adams, Peter Michael
Furniture designer originally from the USA. Adams moved his design studio, D.Vise, to Tasmania c. 1984 and has designed benches, public seating, meditation mats and ...
Adamson, John
Scottish colonial male draughtsman whose sketches and paintings of Melbourne were reproduced as lithographs even after his sudden death at sea en route to Calcutta. ...
Aikenhead, James, b. 1815
Scottish male colonial sketcher and founder of the Launceston Examiner, Aikenhead's journal recording his emigration from London to Tasmania, with his only known drawings, has ...
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.
Aitken, John
Colonial sketcher and clergyman who managed to produce an album of sketches while on a whirlwind 12 month world tour that took in NSW, Victoria, ...
Akers, Charles Style, b.
English colonial Royal engineer whose watercolours and drawings of Tasmanian scenery belied his frustration at having received such a far-flung posting. He later painted icebergs ...
Allen, Edward
Lithographer, surveyor and estate agent, Allen advertised his new premises in December 1857 at the corner of Charles and Cameron streets, Launceston.
Allison, Brian
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 ...
Allport, Francis Evett, b. 1843
Francis Allport was the son and pupil of sketcher Mary Morton Allport. Examples of his work are preserved in Mary's 'Book of Treasures' which is ...
Allport, Gordon, b. 1845
Child artist, son of sketcher Mary Morton Allport whose artistic skills were sadly not fully realised because he drowned aged five. Examples of early drawings ...
Allport, Morton, b. 1830
Painter and amateur photographer. Allport appears to have made the first photographic expedition to the Lake St Clair region in Tasmania, exhibiting the stereoscopic photographs ...
Anderson, Illiffe Gordon, b. 1890
Andrew, Carl, b. 1939
Carl Andrew had a distinguished career as a curator specialising in Australian colonial art and decorative arts.
Angus, Max, b. 1914
Angus is recognised as both a painter and poster artist, whose travel posters were exhibited in 'Follow the Sun: Australian Travel Posters 1930s-1950s' at the ...
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 ...
Archer, William, b. 1820
Although best-known as an architect, William Archer was also a talented botanical artist. He assisted Dr Joseph Hooker at Kew Gardens with the 'Florae Tasmaniae' ...
Arkeveld, Hans, b. 1942
Perth-based painter, sculptor and printmaker. Has been a long term artist in residence at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of ...
Armstrong, George Fleming, b. 1803
Irish religious instructor, came to Point Puer, Tasmania in the 1830s to be catechist at the outpost for convict boys at the Port Arthur penal ...