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Allport, Henry Curzon, b. 1788
Watercolour painter. He was a contemporary and pupil of John Glover and brother to Joseph Allport, sister-in-law to Mary Morton Allport. Member of the Old ...
Allport, Mary Louise, b. 1832
Only daughter of sketcher Mary Morton Allport. Minnie Allport's work mainly consisted of delicate watercolours of native Australian flowers, both single specimens and decorative bunches.
Allport, Mary Morton, b. 1806
Painter of landscapes, flowers, natural history studies and portrait miniatures. Allport's etchings, engravings and lithographs were the first to have been made by a woman ...
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 ...
Amstel, J. W. Ploos Van, b.
Colonial Dutch Consul-General to Victoria who made watercolour sketches and photographs during his travels around Australia.
Anderson, George
George Anderson was a painter and decorator who was responsible for the decoration of a number of buildings in Heathcote, Victoria, including the hall at ...
Anderson, Robert Shortried, b. 1833
Scottish architectural draughtsman who emigrated to Victoria in 1851. Anderson painted views of the Castlemaine district, including an oil painting, 'Mount Alexander Gold Diggings'.
Andrewartha,
Sketcher, exhibited three works with the South Australian Society of Arts at Adelaide in 1859.
Andrews, Charles William
Andrews was probably the most prolific of the signature artists to appear in the earliest series of the Illustrated Sydney News. Most of his illustrations ...
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 ...
Apperly, Henry, b. 1824
Henry Apperly was a sculptor and carver. He may have come to Australia in search of gold, but as of 1854 he hadn't yet found ...
Appleton, Horatio
Colonial Melbourne sketcher who showed a crayon on copper drawing at the 1854 Melbourne Exhibition held in preparation for the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition.
Archer,
Sketcher. A book of sketches drawn by Archer in the 1850s is now held in private collection.
Archer, Alexander, b. 1828
Member of a large enterprising colonial family which included a number of fellow artists, Archer worked for a number of years for the Bank of ...
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 ...
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' ...
Aresti, Joseph
Painter and lithographer. Aresti brought examples of chromolithographs with him on his arrival to Melbourne in 1857 and exhibited works using this process in the ...
Arguimbau, Narcissus George, b. 1829
Watercolourist and naval officer. N.G. Arguimbau painted 'H.M.S. Iris' in 1857 when the ship was serving at the Australia Station. He later settled with his ...
Arragoni, F.
Arragoni was employed as a scene painter during 1856 on The Neapolitan Panorama for Melbourne's Cremorne Gardens. Later that year he offered an oil painting ...