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Adamson, James Hazell, b. 1829
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
Adamson, David Beveridge, b. 1823
David Beveridge Adamson emigrated to South Australia in 1839. He designed and produced toys, mechanical appliances and scientific instruments, the latter of which he used ...
Aitken, John
Colonial sketcher and clergyman who managed to produce an album of sketches while on a whirlwind 12 month world tour that took in NSW, Victoria, ...
Akers, Charles Style, b.
English colonial Royal engineer whose watercolours and drawings of Tasmanian scenery belied his frustration at having received such a far-flung posting. He later painted icebergs ...
Allen, C. William
Colonial male professional photographer from South Australia who advertised his skills as a photographic artist in Howell's Adelaide Almanac in 1858.
Angas, George French, b. 1822
A watercolour and natural history painter, many of Angas's sketches from his travels as a naturalist in the mid 1800s became the basis for lithographic ...
Angas, John Howard, b. 1823
Pastoralist and member of parliament, John Howard Angas was also a natural history painter. He painted birds, insects, and flowers, but no surviving work is ...
Babbage, Benjamin Herschel, b. 1815
Sketcher who trained as an engineer. Babbage was also an amateur photographer, architect, scientist and explorer. His pen-and-ink expedition sketches were shown in Adelaide at ...
Ball, Adam Gustavus, b. 1821
Like so many artists of the period, Ball's job as a civil engineer allowed him to travel throughout South Australia recording scenes of outback life ...
Bath, Hubert William, b. 1856
Hubert William Bath's only known artistic accomplishment came before the age of 12 when he won a prize in the 1867 South Australian Society of ...
Berger, Heinrich
Heinrich Berger was an etcher and lithographer whose work can be found in several major national collections. His subject matter was mostly concerned with views ...
Bevan, Thomas
Thomas Bevan was a professional photographer in the nineteenth century who is known to have lived and practiced in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Blandowski, Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig, b. 1822
William Blandowski lived in Australia for almost a decade and in that time he explored tracts of Central Victoria and helped found the Geological Society ...
Brocklesby, Philip Noah
An 1849 sketch of a cattle station executed by Philip Noah Brocklesby is now in the collection of the Mitchell Library.
Cawthorne, William Anderson, b. 1824
Sketcher, watercolourist and schoolmaster in Adelaide, Vic. Known for his writings and artworks with a colonial focus.
Crawford, Frazer Smith, b. 1829
Professional photographer and photo-lithographer born in Scotland. A resident of Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, Crawford was possibly the first photographer in Australia to provide original ...
Culley, John Ralph, b. 1831
Painter, carver, gilder and frame-maker born in Wiltshire, England. Resident of Adelaide, South Australia he was particularly fond of architectural subjects.
Dureya, Sanford, b. 1820
Sanford Dureya was a photographer. He was born in New York in the 1820s and worked in Melbourne from 1852-55 with his elder brother.
Fry, John V., b. 1831
Scene-painter and actor, worked for various theatrical companies creating sets in theatres primarily in the cities of Melbourne and Adelaide.
Galbraith, William, b. 1822
Starting their business with a single lithographic press, the partnership Penman & Galbraith became South Australia's longest-running and most important art-printing establishment.