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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Anson, Henry
Professional photographer, in partnership with W.A. Francis at the Adelaide Photographic Institution, Adelaide, from about 1862.
Appleton, George A.
Painter, lithographer and photographic colourist during the 1860s. With Alexander Habbe, Appleton painted transparencies to celebrate the Sydney visit of the Duke of Edinburgh in ...
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 ...
Ballard, H. B.
Ballard was a professional photographer who practiced in Beechworth, Victoria from 1868, Mount Gambier, South Australia from 1880, and later in Branxton and Singleton, New ...
Barlow, W.
While W. Barlow was engaged as assistant photographer on Gordon Goyder's expedition to northern Australia, his surveying duties prevented him from taking many photographs - ...
Batchelor, William Henry, b. 1830
Arriving from England in 1854 with his wife, William Henry Batchelor disembarked at Adelaide and promptly went inland to Burra Burra where he lived the ...
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 ...
Blood, Matthew Henry Smyth, b. 1808
Kapunda, South Australia's first resident general practitioner, Blood was also a keen amateur photographer who was said to submit most of his friends to the ...
Boehme, Alfred
Alfred Boehme's painting of the first Church of England at Inverbrackie near Woodside is in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Brooks, Joseph
Official photographer on the Goyder expedition (1868/1869?), he took several photographs of the Northern Territory coastline and of the planned site of the Darwin township.
Burnell, George, b. 1831
Mid-nineteenth-century photographer noted for a series of views of the Murray River.
Caire, Nicholas John, b. 1837
Nicholas John Caire was a portrait and landscape photographer. He was one of the first photographers to create literary and narrative photographs about the lives ...