George Hamilton was a painter, illustrator, lithographer, explorer, author and policeman. He exhibited with the South Australian Society of Arts. Hamilton died in 1883.
Painter, music and singing teacher and minister, exhibited at the Geelong Mechanics Institute Exhibition in 1869. Upon moving to Queensland that same year, I'Erson's focus ...
Colonial male Quaker teacher of natural sciences whose sketches of prisoners provide insight into the Port Arthur colony. He travelled to Quaker communities around the ...
Sketcher, made three watercolour views of Sydney in the 1830s. The artist was possibly Michael Metcalf(e), a shipping and customs agent who arrived at Sydney ...
Nephew of James Cook, related to Isaac Smith, the colonial artist painted portraits and the marine. Some of his more accomplished works include two large ...
An architect, surveyor and selector, his drawings show a sharp eye for domestic detail and include humble buildings and people going about their everyday life.
oil and watercolour painter. Migrated to Victoria about 1855 and settled in Geelong. His work consisted mainly of landscapes, most of which were done in ...
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 ...
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...
Painter, modeller and amateur photographer born in England. Resident of NSW and Victoria he was a prolific painter and 'national benefit'. He is represented in ...
Watercolourist and squatter. Resident of Tasmania, Sydney, Western Australia and Victoria. Cooper was a modest artist, bequeathing his 'book of Sketches by John Glover [q.v.]' ...
An eminent US scholar, considered to be "a towering figure in the history of geology". Dana's contribution to Australian geology was his description and mapping ...
Best known as a keen amateur photographer, the Reverend Fereday took photos of the Bass Strait Islanders while on regular mission voyages and he is ...