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 ...
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.
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 ...
Margaret Black sketched several notable views of Launceston that were exhibited in Melbourne in 1860 to glowing reviews. In 1861 one of the picture was ...
William Rose Bock learned engraving and printmaking from his father Thomas Bock and was well-known in Tasmania as a designer of illuminated addresses, crests and ...
Sketcher Emily Stuart Bowring's known and attributed pencil and watercolour drawings are mainly of places where she lived or visited. Most depict homesteads or their ...
Colonial photographer connected to the artist John Glover through his wife, he published two albums containing some reproductions of his photographs, Memories of Fifty Years ...
Painter, art teacher, lithographer and public servant in Hobart, Tasmania. Chapman was not only one of early Tasmania's most prolific, competent and detailed sketchers but ...
Sketcher and watercolourist. Resident of Victoria, NSW and Tasmania. Cowie painted Regency-style specimens of wildflowers, some of which were showsn in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial ...
William Paul Dowling was a painter, engraver and photographer. In 1849 he was transported to Hobart Town as a political prisoner. Dowling worked in partnership ...
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...