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List biographies
| Version | Name | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P | Current | Colonial period cartoonist, worked at Ballarat, Victoria where he had a cartoon published in the local Punch magazine. |
| 1 | P., E. H. | Current | Mlle P. taught French and gave drawing lessons "in every style" to earn her livelihood. She knew what her selling point was too, advertising herself as "a Parisian lady." |
| 1 | P., E. S. | Current | This artist's sketch of Major Lee's house is very similar to that of F.C. Terry's, yet each artist claims a different location for the house, the former in Manly and the latter, Vaucluse. |
| 1 | P., H. S. | Current | H.S.P. was a colonial period cartoonist who worked in Ballarat, Victoria and who contributed occasional cartoons to Ballarat Punch. |
| 1 | P., W. M. | Current | A competent sketcher who initialled a large drawing of Chalmers Free Presbyterian Church in Hobart in 1859. The pencil on scraperboard drawing is currently held in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. |
| 1 | Page, J. W. E. | Current | J.W.E. Page is the disputed illustrator of the print 'A convict revolt in Williamstown Victoria, 1857, in which John Price, the head of the penal department was murdered'. |
| 1 | Pain, H. E. | Current | H. E. Pain was a collector of curios from the Pacific Region, confusingly still referred to as the 'South Seas' by Australians at the time, a hangover from the country's British heritage. He was also a talented artist and was commissioned to create works to welcome the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867. He particularly focussed on the lives of Indigenous Australians and on native flora and fauna. |
| 1 | Paine, John | Current | John Paine was a well-known commercial photographer who travelled with the Australian Squadron and recorded the establishment of the British Protectorate over South East New Guinea in 1884. His bread and butter, though, was selling picturesque views of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and of the bustling city itself. |
| 1 | Painter, Sydney Bird (The) | Current | natural history artist, was a contemporary of the Port Jackson Painter in Sydney in the late eighteenth century. |
| 1 | Palaitis, Josonia | Current | Contemporary painter who lives and works in Sydney. Winner of Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Palaitis has accepted high profile portrait commissions and exhibited work since 1980. |
| 1 | Palm Island, Allan | Current | Lino printer and painter, Allan Palm Island lives on his namesake in Queensland. His paintings of Palm Island's marine life are in the permanent collection of the Queensland Museum. |
| 1 | Palmer (Miss) | Current | Although untrained, Palmer's hand has created little glimpses into rural Tasmanian life in the nineteenth century we would not otherwise have had. |
| 1 | Palmer, Elise | Current | Now a hotel, the subject of sketcher Elise Palmer's only known work, a pencil and wash drawing from 1842, was then the Officers' Quarters in Windsor, New South Wales. The work is held by Canberra's National Library of Australia. |
| 1 | Palmer, Ethleen Mary | Current | During WW2, Ethleen Palmer taught remedial art practice to returned soldiers. She then founded an art school, the Double Bay Studio, that ran from 1945-1951. Palmer's work was always evolving and she developed a technique in linocut printing which allowed for subtle tonal gradation, a breakthrough that certainly boosted the profile of her art. |
| 1 | Palmer, Herbert | Current | A sketcher, Palmer captured a view of the Australian Champion Sweepstakes races held in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. |
| 1 | Palmer, W. | Current | The exact extent and depth of Palmer's work is largely unknown though he is credited with painting all the windows in Holy Trinity Church of England, Argyle Street, Sydney. He possibly did many more in Sydney, including those of St Philip's, Church Hill and St Mark's, Darling Point, windows initially attributed to the architect, Edmund Blacket. |
| 1 | Pambegan, Arthur Koo'ekka (Jnr) | Current | Arthur Koo'ekka Pambegan Jnr is a Senior Elder of the Winehanem clan from the Archer River region in North Queensland. Pambegan's 'dance sculptures' were learnt from his father. Pambegan Jnr has been a regular exhibitor in a number of major national exhibitions including the 2007 inugural National Indigenous Art Triennial, 'Culture Warriors' at the National Gallery of Australia. |
| 1 | Panozzo, Steve | Current | A contemporary caricaturist and cartoonist, Panozzo has been a professional cartoonist since 1983. Twice president of the Black and White Artists Club he mainly contributes caricatures to publications such as The Australian. |
| 1 | Pantimas, Dick Tjupurrula | Current | Dick Pantimas was one of the second generation of painters which began to emerge in Papunya in the early '80s and before beginning to paint had been a close observer of the older artists for many years, including his big brother Johnny Warangkula. |
| 1 | Panton, Joseph Anderson | Current | Joseph Anderson Panton was a painter, etcher and police magistrate. He mapped the Yarra Valley while he was magistrate at Heidelberg. Panton Hill is named after him and Panton's Gap, near Healesville, after a hut he owned there. |