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Lacombe,
Professional photographer, was working at Sydney in 1856. This is presumably the Monsieur Lacombe described as 'an amateur from Lyons' who exhibited photographs at the ...
Lacy, George, b. 1817
A self-confessed adventurer, Lacy 'bade adieu to Old England and sailed for the Antipodes'. As a skilled and amused observer of social foibles and appearances ...
Lake,
Sketcher, made the original drawing for Schouten Island, an engraving in H. Butler Stoney's A Residence in Tasmania (London 1856).
Landale, Harriet
Sketcher, drew in Tasmania. Four small, crude pencil and watercolour views are known. She married Rev. Warren Auber Brooke in 1857.
Landsborough, William, b. 1825
Sketcher, explorer and resident of NSW and Qld. Celebrated as the first explorer to cross the continent (Australia) from north to south.
Lane, Henry Bowyer
Sketcher, architect and public servant, was in Melbourne by 10 August 1852. Despite his impressive references he lost his position at the Victorian government's Colonial ...
Lang, Gideon Scott, b. 1819
Lang was a sketcher, author and pastoralist, who arrived from Scotland in 1841. He later became a Member of the Legislative Assembly in New South ...
Lang, Isabella Dunmore, b. 1843
Long-lived nineteenth-century amateur sketcher.Her drawing-book, a work of her adolescence, contains pencil sketches of buildings in England and France and two watercolours of flowers.
Lang, Ludwig, b. 1834
A German-born nineteenth-century lithographer based in Melbourne. His lithographs were mostly reproductions.
Lashbrooke, Ada
Sketcher, painted some watercolours of flowers in an unidentified album, the one work is dated 1859. An unsigned bunch of flowers, painted in a formal ...
Lau, Hermann, b.
Sketcher, traveller, musician and collector, was a native of Germany who was in New South Wales for four and a half years, but disliked Sydney. ...
Lauvergne, Barthélemy, b. 1805
Lauvergne was from a family with no previous naval tradition. He first arrived in Australia on board the 'Astrolabe' for its 1826/1829 voyage of the ...
Lawn, Thomas
Professional photographer, his photographic studio was listed in directories from 1858 to 1868 at Richmond, Victoria, before moving to East Melbourne. Focused on portraiture, and ...
Lawrance, Elizabeth, b. 1844
Embroiderer, worked a sampler at Adelaide in 1851 and sent it to her English grandparents, which includes their names, and their six children. She lived ...
Lawson, John Downie
Painter, engraver and lithographer. A resident of Melbourne,a lithograph of St John the Evangelist, Toorak produced by him and his business partner John Wesley Pearson ...
Lazenby, George, b. 1807
Cabinetmaker, master builder, lay preacher and civil servant. He was born in 1807. A man with a social conscience Lazenby was Chairman of the Swan ...
Le Gould, Louis G.
There is only one known work of Le Gould's, called a 'Decorative Panel'. Despite this minimal information, we may bear Le Gould and other decorative ...
Le Mesurier, William Henry
Caricaturist and army engineer. His work 'Professor Elliot's Grand Ascent de Cheminé' (1854) shows a hairy trouserless Lieutenant R. Elliot about to climb up the ...
Le Plastrier, Henry John
Colonial era Victorian illustrator and accountant. Bailliere's 'Melbourne Directory' for 1868, 1870 and 1871 lists Leplastrier as an accountant with Her Majesty's Customs.
Le Souëf, Caroline, b. 1834
Painter and decorative artist, after arriving in Australia her family settled in the Goulburn River Valley where her friendly contact with the local Aboriginal people ...