Advanced Search
1485 results for … adjust search
Results
La Trobe, Charles Joseph, b. 1801
A gifted sketcher, colonial administrator and travel writer, he always recorded his travels, and the illustrations in at least two of his four published travel ...
Lacy, George, b. 1817
A self-confessed adventurer, Lacy 'bade adieu to Old England and sailed for the Antipodes'. As a skilled and amused observer of social foibles and appearances ...
Lang, Alexander Denistoun, b. 1814
Lang was a settler originating from Scotland. His artistic exploits included sketching, photography and lithography. He occupied the property Terrinallum, near Mortlake, Victoria, between 1839 ...
Langeake, John
Scene-painter, painted the scenery for South Australia's first theatrical venue, ambitiously christened the Theatre Royal, in the room above the Adelaide Tavern in May 1838. ...
Lauvergne, Barthélemy, b. 1805
Lauvergne was from a family with no previous naval tradition. He first arrived in Australia on board the 'Astrolabe' for its 1826/1829 voyage of the ...
Law, Mary Sophia Georgina, b. 1816
Sketcher. Made a pencil view of Old Government House, Emu Plains, in 1840.
Lazenby, George, b. 1807
Cabinetmaker, master builder, lay preacher and civil servant. He was born in 1807. A man with a social conscience Lazenby was Chairman of the Swan ...
Le Breton, Louis, b. 1818
French painter, draughtsman and lithographer who served on board the Astrolabe (1839-1840), making paintings and drawings of Australian subjects.
Le Souëf, Caroline, b. 1834
Painter and decorative artist, after arriving in Australia her family settled in the Goulburn River Valley where her friendly contact with the local Aboriginal people ...
Leake, Georgiana Mary, b.
Watercolourist whose works mainly depict flowers from Western Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. A collection of early photographs and watercolours compiled by her ...
Leech, John, b. 1817
Mid 19th century English cartoonist whose work included references to the Australian Gold rush of the 1850s.
Leichhardt, Ludwig, b. 1812
Sketcher, naturalist and explorer. Known drawings are little more than rough records made to assist his scientific work.
Leigh, W. H.
Sketcher, ship's surgeon and author who visited Kangaroo Island in April 1837 on board the vessel 'South Australia'. He later visited Adelaide and Sydney before ...
Leitch, W. W.
Scene-painter, designed and painted a 'splendid' new act drop for the refurbished Royal Victoria Theatre in Sydney when it re-opened on 6 August 1849. He ...
Lempriere, Clara
Painter. Daughter of Thomas and Charlotte Lempriere. Miss Lempriere studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's painting school under von Guérard.
Lempriere, Thomas James, b. 1796
Self-taught portrait painter and decorative artist of Tasmania during the mid 1800s. Linus Miller said about him: 'Mr Lempriere was one of those rare specimens ...
Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre, b. 1778
Natural history artist. Leseur travelled to Australia with a French expedition at the beginning of the nineteenth century, his drawings and etchings of local flora ...
Lette, Elizabeth, b. 1792
Portrait painter, was reported in both Launceston and Hobart Town newspapers in 1848 as a portrait painter of some ability. She spoke of becoming a ...
Levinge,
Illustrator, illuminator and designer, illuminated an address presented to Rev. Dr John Bede Polding, in the late 1840s. It was later praised as a masterpiece ...
Lewis, Mortimer, b. 1796
Colonial Architect of NSW, came to Sydney in March 1830. National Portrait Gallery holds a pair of miniatures in watercolour on ivory of Mortimer and ...