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Smedley, John, b. 1841
Late 19th century Sydney born painter and architect whose work was influenced greatly by East Asian modes of painting and drawing. He travelled and lived ...
Smedley, William Thomas, b. 1858
American born painter and illustrator, trained in the Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens. Worked briefly on the Picturesque Atlas and in ...
Smith, Bernhard, b. 1820
19th century painter, sculptor and civil servant, whose pre-Raphaelite type medallion portraits of several associates and family members were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. ...
Smithers, Alexander
Professional photographer and vocal proponent of modernisation in the arts. Active in Newcastle around the 1860s, he produced photographs of the triumphal arch that was ...
Snell, Edward, b. 1820
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with ...
Soden, Joseph H., b. 1840
Professional photographer, arriving from London in Melbourne 1853. In a scandalous series of events, Soden was accused of forging pound notes and served out his ...
Solly, Benjamin Travers, b. 1820
A well-connected colonial official for most of his life, Solly was an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist with representation in significant collections.
Solomon, Saul, b. 1836
Portrait painter, professional photographer, businessman, civic leader and politician. The La Trobe Library has a number of albums of his work and the Mortlock Library ...
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Sommer, John Conrad, b. 1828
Continental photographer, house painter and drawing teacher, who liked to keep up to date with the latest fashions in photography for commercial purposes.
Sommers, John E., b. 1846
John (Jack) Sommers was a painter and illustrator with association with the Heidelberg School artists in Melbourne.
Souter, David Henry, b. 1862
Popular Scottish-born Federation period Sydney painter, cartoonist, poet and journalist, noted for his stylish cat cartoons.
Southern, Clara, b. 1860
Clara Southern, painter, studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's Art Schools in 1883-87 under Frederick McCubbin and George Folingsby. Fellow students included Josephine Muntz-Adams, ...
Spearhouse,
Sketcher of architecture, admired for her 'four very pretty studies in crystoleum'.
Spence, Percy, b. 1868
Federation-era Sydney painter, illustrator and Bulletin cartoonist. Spence was born in Sydney but raised in Fiji before spending a number of years in England, living, ...
Spong,
Miss Spong was possibly Jean Spong who made a coloured crayon landscape in 1885.
Spong, Walter Brookes, b. 1851
Spong first worked in Australia with Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin painting theatrical backdrops. After eleven years in the country, working primarily in ...
Spooner, Horace H., b.
Late colonial period Sydney illustrator, journalist, critic and probably cartoonist who died of typhoid while covering the Boer War.
Sprent,
Book illustrator.
Stacy, Robert Sheppard, b. 1834
Robert Stacy emigrated from England to South Australia as a young boy in 1841. He practiced photography from c.1962, establishing a series of photographic studios ...
Stacy, Robert Sheppard, b. 1862
Based in South Australia, Robert Stacy Jnr worked as a photographer with his father for some time during the 1880s under the name ‘R.S. Stacy ...