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Bauer, Ferdinand Lucas, b. 1760
Ferdinand Lucas Bauer never emigrated to Australia, but as part of the 1801 Flinders's expedition team, he captured some of the most detailed and beautiful ...
Mason, Abraham John, b. 1794
19th century colonial wood engraver.
Cockburn, James Pattison, b. 1779
Topographical painter, author and army officer born in New York, USA. Resident of England and Canada he visited NSW en route between the two. Dursing ...
Petit, Nicolas-Martin, b. 1777
Petit was the artist for a French voyage to Australia, whose job, according to the eminent scientist Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, was to record 'all that ...
King, Philip Gidley, b. 1758
King sailed with the First Fleet to Botany Bay in 1788. He established the settlement in Norfolk Island and later became governor of New South ...
King, Phillip Parker, b. 1791
Phillip Parker King,an explorer, surveyor and sketcher, was commander of an expedition to explore the coast of New Holland. His journals, sketches and charts appeared ...
Péron, François Auguste, b. 1775
Naval draughtsman and natural scientist. Appointed student zoologist on the expedition to the South Pacific under the command of Nicolas Baudin which returned to France ...
Hillingford, Robert, b. 1825
Artist whose watercolour, Emigrants to South Australia, c.1800, is held in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia.
Littlejohn, Robert, b. 1756
Painter, drawing teacher, naturalist and settler, was born and educated in Scotland. He came to Van Diemen's Land in 1803. His greatest passion was for ...
Clayton, Samuel, b. 1783
Portraitist, engraver, art teacher and silversmith born in Ireland. Transported to NSW, reputedly for forgery, he prospered in the colony.
Freycinet, Louis-Claude de Saulces de, b. 1779
French draughtsman, cartographic surveyor and naturalist, Freycinet's atlases document many Australian subjects including early architectural drawings of Sydney Barracks.
Read, Richard Daniel, b. 1765
Richard Read (senior) was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation for possession of forged notes and arrived in Sydney on the Earl Spencer on 9 October ...
Smith, Isaac, b. 1752
Relative of James Cook, he also served the navigator aboard the Endeavour in the voyage to Australia, and according to Cook particularly instrumental in making ...
Stoutshanks, S.
Early 19th century London cartoonist whose work satirised the Swan River settlement (Perth).
Taylor, James, b. 1785
Military officer, James Taylor, arrived in Sydney in 1817 with the 48th Foot Regiment aboard the Matilda. Taylor produced a number of paintings and prints ...
Taylor, Stephen
Stephen Taylor was chiefly a portrait, game and animal painter who worked in England from 1807 - 1849. Despite never visiting Australia, Taylor painted at ...
Tetley, Joseph Swabey
Colonial naval officer, attributed three volumes of twelve umber monochrome watercolours depicting illustrations of Australian Aborigines in Botany Bay.
Alt, Augustus Theodore, b. 1734
A surveyor and sketcher, whose view of Early Sydney in 1796 is in the collection of the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
Florance, Thomas, b. 1785
A sketcher and surveyor who served in the American War of 1812 and lived for many years in New Zealand. Most of his drawings would ...
Mitchell, Thomas, b. 1792
Painter, surveyor and military officer. A resident of Sydney, he made topographical sketches and surveys and painted portraits.