Benjamin Tannett was a noted theatrical scene-painter and actor working in Melbourne and Sydney in the mid nineteenth century. In 1859 Tannett painted 'new and ...
Targett was a professional photographer who was once charged by the Victoria Police for deserting his family. He left no identified photographs behind but is ...
English marine painter who specialised in the subject of ships. While painting and exhibiting extensively in London, a number of works were exhibited in South ...
The sketcher's 1855 coloured engraving shows an elevated view of Melbourne looking down the Yarra River. The Melbourne Punch satirised it: 'An artist with a ...
Colonial-era Victorian and Tasmanian caricaturist, Thomas was awarded damages of 15 shillings when the subject of one of his caricatures destroyed the illustration as it ...
Photography teacher (or confidence man), advertised in the Sydney Morning Herald on 10 November 1862 that he would explain negative and positive photography.
Painter, produced a view of William Street, Brisbane, in 1865. The painting was in the possession of the then archbishop of Brisbane, R.G. Halse, in ...