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Willis, James A. C., b. 1834
Colonial male surveyor whose amateur watercolour drawings of landscapes received certificates of merit and were published as lithographs.
Wilmot, George C.
Professional photographer, ran a Portrait Gallery at 31 Malop Street, West Geelong, Victoria, in 1865-86 in partnership with Key. Wilmot & Key photographed 'King Jerry, ...
Wilson, William John, b. 1833
Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...
Wilson, William George, b. 1849
Painter, exhibited with the Queensland Art Society from 1892 to 1913.
Wishart, George, b. 1872
Brisbane based artist whose painting practice focused on marine subjects around Moreton Bay or on the Brisbane River.
Withers, Walter, b. 1854
The English born painter Walter Withers is known for his moody landscapes of the Victorian landscape around Heidelberg, Eaglemont and Creswick. In the brotherhood of ...
Wivell, Edward James
A professional photographer and dancing teacher from 1869 until 1893. Wivell also became the proprietor of Adelaide's leading commercial art gallery in the 1880s.
Wolinski, Joseph, b. 1872
painter, did a large oil painting showing NSW rising from a bed of native flora which decorated an arch erected for the Federation procession in ...
Wollaston, H.
Federation period Sydney newspaper illustrator.
Wood, Joseph
Painter, lived and worked in Victoria. He also did the watercolour 'Loder's Creek and Bridge, Southport' (1890).
Woodhouse, Frederick, b. 1820
Woodhouse became best known for painting every Melbourne Cup winner for more than thirty years, from 1861. During a long, successful and prolific career, he ...
Woodhouse, Frederick, b. 1848
Painter, painted many Melbourne Cup winners, including 'Auraria, Winner of the Melbourne Cup, 1895, with John Stevenson up, at Flemington,' 1895, oil on canvas, which ...
Woodhouse, Herbert James, b. 1858
Late colonial period Melbourne painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor, is buried in Geelong Cemetery, Victoria.
Woodward, Bernard
Art administrator, studied in London. As the inaugural director of the WA Museum and Art Gallery, which opened in stages from 1892, Woodward played a ...
Woodward, Arthur Thomas, b. 1865
Arthur Thomas Woodward was a painter and art teacher. He introduced the teaching of crafts to the School of Art and Design at the Bendigo ...
Woolcott, Charles Henry, b. 1821
Painter and public servant, was born in Exeter, England. In 1832 he accompanied his parents to Sydney, where he began to work with the City ...
Wright, James
Professional photographer, worked at Singleton, New South Wales, between 1867 and 1891.
Young, Blamire, b. 1862
Originally a mathematics teacher, the English born Blamire Young established himself as an illustrator, painter, designer, writer and art critic. An article in 'Art and ...
Ziegler, Ernest Charles Victor, b. 1862
Ernest Ziegler was a known studio photographer, based in South Australia. He began his career as a photographer’s printer at the ‘Adelaide Photographic Company’ in ...
of Cooktown, Oscar, b. 1877
'Oscar of Cooktown' is known only by the one book of drawings which was fortuitously preserved in the collection of the National Museum of Australia, ...