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Banks, Elizabeth Lindsay, b. 1849
An educator who brought drawing classes into the curriculum under her charge. Banks was appointed infant mistress at the Public School on Riley St in ...
Bateman, Edward La Trobe, b. 1816
Although seeking his fortune in the Victorian goldfields, Edward La Trobe Bateman instead drifted into work as an illustrator and landscape designer. One of his ...
Belcher, Edward William, b. 1842
Edward William Belcher worked as a professional photographer in 19th century South Australia, alternatively in partnership with George Freeman and on his own.
Benbow, Anne, b. 1841
Anne Benbow lived her entire life in Oyster Cove, Tasmania, much of it on an old Aboriginal reserve. Despite the fact that many of Benbow's ...
Bennett, George, b. 1804
After two previous trips to Australia as a natural historian, George Bennett finally settled in Sydney in 1836 and worked as a medical practitioner. He ...
Bowring, Emily Stuart, b. 1835
Sketcher Emily Stuart Bowring's known and attributed pencil and watercolour drawings are mainly of places where she lived or visited. Most depict homesteads or their ...
Boyd, William Alexander Jenyns, b. 1842
A.J. Boyd was involved in the teaching profession for a good part of his life. In 1882 his book "Old Colonials" was published and which ...
Chambers, Blagden, b. 1846
Bushman, station manager in Queensland later Watercolour painter and grazier and writer, resident in Maranoa and Barcoo in Queensland from about 1862-1867 later Sydney and ...
Clarke, Joseph Augustine, b. 1840
Illustrator, painter, etcher, art teacher and decorator born in England. Resident of Brisbane Clarke was the first etcher in Queensland.
Cooke, Albert Charles, b. 1836
Late colonial era painter, engraver, cartoonist (attributed), illustrator and draughtsman.
Douglass, Elizabeth, b. 1825
Elizabeth Douglass worked mainly in miniature portraits on ivory, chalk drawings, watercolour, engraving and oil colour. Her work received recognition at the Geelong Mechanics Institute, ...
Du Cane, Edmund Frederick, b. 1830
Engaged as a Royal Engineer to superintend the works for the proposed convict establishment in Western Australia. Du Cane's sketches and paintings of exploratory expeditions, ...
Duterrau, Benjamin, b. 1767
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Fenton, James, b. 1820
As well as developing a thriving timber export industry, Fenton found time for sketching and producing views of Tasmania which were published in Melbourne newspapers ...
Goyder, George, b. 1826
Surveyor, he explored much of the Northern Territory recommending what was then known as Palmerston as the capital, which was later renamed Darwin. He also ...
Hack, Wilton, b. 1843
Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...
Henderson, John Black, b. 1827
Late colonial-era painter, sketcher, comic illustrator, amateur photographer and surveyor. A founding member of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870, Henderson showed six landscapes ...
Hodgkinson, William Oswald, b. 1835
Sketcher, explorer, journalist, miner and politician. Hodgkinson had a varied career encompassing sailing, gold prospecting, participation in the Burke and Wills relief expedition and exploration ...
Joubert, Jules François De Sales, b. 1824
Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...
Kemp, Ellen
Sketcher and writer she lived for many years on the Macleay river in Northern NSW. Her work documents her life in this region.