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Cooper, Duncan Elphinstone, b. 1813
Watercolourist and squatter. Resident of Tasmania, Sydney, Western Australia and Victoria. Cooper was a modest artist, bequeathing his 'book of Sketches by John Glover [q.v.]' ...
Dalton, Edwin
A prominent society photographer, teacher to Queen Victoria and inventor of the 'Biotype'. His talent for portraiture was such 'you could almost speak to' his ...
Daplyn, Alfred James, b. 1844
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...
Davitt, Ellen, b. 1812
Painter, teacher and novelist who ruffled a few feathers with her overbearing personality. She taught drawing at various schools but her own art was not ...
Dexter, William B., b. 1817
William Dexter was a painter. He arrived at Sydney in 1852. Dexter and his wife Caroline opened a 'Gallery of Arts and School of Design' ...
Douglass, Alfred D., b. 1820
Alfred D. Douglass was a sketcher, businessman and newspaper proprietor. He came from Scotland to Van Diemen's Land in 1835. Douglass was a proprietor of ...
Duke, William Charles, b. 1815
Painter of Irish origin, Duke produced numerous portraits, landscapes and lithographs. He also worked extensively as a scenery painter for various theatrical companies in Australia ...
Earles, Chester, b. 1821
Earles painted portraits and figures inspired by literature and the Bible. He exhibited widely in his lifetime.
Elder, Gershom, b.
A portrait painter who lived and worked in Melbourne in the 1840s. He obviously didn't prosper as he died in 1853 in debt to his ...
Fyans, Foster, b. 1790
Although known more for his eccentricities and lively memoirs than his art, Fyans was a sophisticated watercolourist. He is known for a fine picture of ...
Gilbert, Francis, b. 1820
As tutor to John Cotton, he used his employer's photographic equipment to make daguerreotype portraits but later moved to Geelong to work as a surveyor. ...
Gilbert, George, b. 1815
George Gilbert founded the first magazine in Victoria, and helped found the Melbourne debating society. He was a multi-talented artist, but was eventually declared bankrupt. ...
Gilfillan, John, b. 1793
After a tumultuous childhood running away to sea, being shipwrecked and press ganged for 8 years, Gilfillan studied art and made it his career. He ...
Gilks, Edward, b. 1822
Born in London, Gilks led a tumultuous career shifting between self employment and working for the Crown Lands Department. During this time he exhibited his ...
Gill, John, b. 1797
Colonial era Victorian architect and attributed cartoonist.
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Gill, Samuel, b. 1818
Colonial era watercolourist, lithographer and presumably photographer who documented exploration and the Gold Rush in Australia.
Godfrey, Henry, b. 1824
Colonial era Victorian sketcher, singer and pastoralist.
Green, John, b. 1811
Trade engraver and printer, originally from Cork, Ireland, then a resident of Melbourne. Green printed some of the earliest views of Melbourne from lithographs by ...
Griffith, E.
E. Griffith was a sketcher. The artist's watercolour 'Border police, Australia Felix [Victoria]. Halt in a stringy bark forest. July, 1841' is in the Alexander ...
Gritten, Henry, b. 1818
Henry Gritten was a painter and professional photographer. He 'enjoyed the favour of Prince Albert, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Westminster'. Gritten ...