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List biographies
| Version | Name | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | à Beckett (Mrs) | Current | Colonial female artist who attended the National Art School in Melbourne. |
| 1 | à Beckett, Constance Matilda | Current | Colonial female who painted for distraction, while her family was parodied in her nephew's novels as the product of a nouveau-riche convict father, whose descendants are now known as the Boyd family. |
| 1 | à Beckett, Edward | Current | Colonial painter of landscapes who was painted in the act of painting by Emma Minne Boyd, matriarch of the influential family of artists. |
| 1 | à Beckett, G. E. | Current | Colonial artist who painted and exhibited works involving depression, doctors, and deans in Melbourne. |
| 1 | à Beckett, M. E. | Current | Colonial artist who exhibited with and sat on the council for the Royal Art Society. There is some speculation that à Beckett may be Emma Minnie Boyd. |
| 1 | à Beckett, Maude | Current | Colonial female art student at the National Gallery Design School in Melbourne. |
| 1 | à Beckett, Thomas Turner (Hon) | Current | This sketcher,lawyer and member of the Victorian Legislative Council held ministerial posts and was a trustee of the Melbourne Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum. His drawings or paintings were exhibited at the 1860 Victorian Exhibition of Fine Arts. |
| 1 | A., C. H. | Current | Professional photographer, C.H.A was offering his services in Sydney around 1868, advertising in the Sydney Morning Herald. |
| 1 | A., G. R. | Current | Colonial era cartoonist. G.R.A drew the cover of 'Sam Slick in Victoria' for a June 1879 edition. |
| 1 | Aarons, Anita | Current | Anita Aarons had a diverse career working as a jeweller, sculptor, art administrator, radio commentator, teacher and art editor for an architecture publication, while living in Australia, America and Canada. Her practice ranged from designing play equipment to stained glass windows and tapestry murals. |
| 1 | Abbold, Charles | Current | Sketcher and cartoonist, Abbold's subjects ranged from scenes of the voyage from England to life on the Victorian goldfields. |
| 1 | Abbot, Inez M. | Current | Australian female painter living in France, whose work may have been purchased by a major museum in Paris, but there is current record of this. |
| 1 | Abbott, Alfred | Current | Amateur photographer, watchmaker and diarist. Known for his stereoscopic prints of Hobart and its surrounds. He also produced an important album incorporating works by Tasmanian and Victorian photographers of the 1850s and 1860s. |
| 1 | Abbott, Barbara | Current | Sydney-based female sketcher, printmaker and textile artist who passed her final assessment in art school by completing an Aboriginal reference workbook she started in her second year. |
| 1 | Abbott, C. A. | Current | Cartoonist and lithographer, his professional career centres on the Ballarat Punch, particularly from 1867 to 1870. At various times he was also briefly the magazine's editor and publisher. |
| 1 | Abbott, Charles | Current | Amateur photographer, watchmaker and optician, his subjects were mainly views of Hobart and he conducted some early experiments in colour printing. His brother, Alfred, was also a photographer and they went on joint photographic excursions. |
| 1 | Abbott, Ernest Edwin | Current | Ernest Edwin Abbott (1889-1973), English-born printmaker, painter and art teacher, based mainly in Melbourne, Victoria. |
| 1 | Abbott, Harold | Current | An official war artist during the Second World War, Harold Abbott was an accomplished portraitist who had studied at the Royal Academy of Art in London before returning to Australia and enlisting in the Australian Imperial Forces. After the war he returned to teaching, working at the National Art School in Sydney before becoming the State Supervisor for Art. |
| 1 | Abbott, John | Current | 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 exhibited in the 1866 Melbourne and 1870 Sydney Intercolonial Exhibitions. |
| 1 | Abbott, Joseph Palmer (Sir) | Current | Abbott was the president of the Art Society of New South Wales (1895/96). It is unknown whether he was also a practising artist. |