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Batchelder, Benjamin Pierce, b. 1826
Benjamin Pierce Batchelder arrived in Australia with two of his brothers, both fellow photographers, in 1856. He established a successful business in Bendigo where he ...
Batchelder, Freeman
Given that his brothers were successful professional photographers it is most probable that Freeman Batchelder was also a photographer. The Batchelder brothers were practicing in ...
Batchelder, Nathaniel, b. 1827
Along with his brothers, Nathaniel Batchelder arrived in Australia in 1856 and set up a successful photography studio in Sydney from 1858 to 1860.
Batchelder, Perez Mann, b. 1818
The eldest of the Batchelder brothers, Perez was undoubtedly instrumental in prompting his siblings to emigrate to Australia, arriving as he did several years before ...
Bateman, Edward La Trobe, b. 1816
Although seeking his fortune in the Victorian goldfields, Edward La Trobe Bateman instead drifted into work as an illustrator and landscape designer. One of his ...
Bath, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bath exhibited her paintings and pastels at two exhibitions in Melbourne in 1857 and 1866.
Bath, Hubert William, b. 1856
Hubert William Bath's only known artistic accomplishment came before the age of 12 when he won a prize in the 1867 South Australian Society of ...
Baxter, Annie Maria, b. 1816
Annie Maria Baxter was a prolific writer who kept meticulous diaries of her life in Australia. Her few surviving drawings are now held at the ...
Beale, Margaret
Arriving in Australia with her younger children, Beale joined her husband (and elder children) in Tasmania before moving to Melbourne. In Hobart Town she had ...
Beamont, John, b. 1789
A committed public servant, John Beaumont held various positions in Hobart Town with the colonial administration. Only one known surviving sketch exists, which is now ...
Beauchamp, Robert Proctor, b. 1819
Born into a privileged family, Beauchamp married an heiress after travelling between England, New Zealand and Victoria for a number of years. They finally settled ...
Beazeley, Margaret
Margaret Beazeley was well-travelled and she made numerous sketches throughout her journeys, capturing a range of scenes from conventional lanscapes to unconventional, unpictureseque views of ...
Beazeley, Theophilus
The Rev. Theodore Beazeley was an avid amateur photography who also taught the craft in evening 'self-improvement' classes in Ipswich, Queensland in the 1850s. One ...
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Beechey, Richard Brydges, b. 1808
While Richard Brydes Beechey painted a scene of Lt. Stokes discovering Victoria River, he is not known to have ever visited Australia though he travelled ...
Behl, John Valentine, b. 1836
John Valentine Behl emigrated from Germany to New South Wales in about 1857 and worked briefly as a professional photographer in Elizabeth Street, Sydney - ...
Bell, Thomas, b. 1798
After emigrating from Ireland, Thomas Bell and his family lived on the land in New South Wales. After his wife died, Bell placed an advertisement ...
Benham, Ann Maria, b. 1837
Ann Maria Benham migrated to South Australia as a child and later began exhibiting her paintings with the South Australian Society of Arts. She is ...
Bennett, George, b. 1804
After two previous trips to Australia as a natural historian, George Bennett finally settled in Sydney in 1836 and worked as a medical practitioner. He ...
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 ...