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Scrivener, Henry A.
Sketcher and naval officer Henry A.Scrivener sketched the obligatory sites for a naval visitor: Government House, Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney Harbour from Garden Island and the ...
Selwyn, Rose Elizabeth, b.
Selwyn was a daughter, sister and wife to Reverends, her watercolours were for friends and family not public exhibition. Her mother-in-law was not appreciative of ...
Sharkey, John
Government photographer and printer, John Sharkey invented his own form of photolithography. In 1869 he was appointed manager of the Government Printing Office's photolithographic branch.
Sheldon, Frederick Stanley
British painter and sculptor who was resident in Victoria during the early 1890s. Known mainly for his interest in equestrian subjects, the National Gallery of ...
Shepherd, Elizabeth
Painter. According to the National Library accession card, she came to Victoria in September 1855 and lived there until February 1884.
Simpson, William Butler
William Butler Simpson was a sketcher and surveyor. He undertook surveying work in the counties of Bathurst, Wellington, Gordon, Bligh, Lincoln and Ashburton between 1861 ...
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 ...
Spearhouse,
Sketcher of architecture, admired for her 'four very pretty studies in crystoleum'.
Spong,
Miss Spong was possibly Jean Spong who made a coloured crayon landscape in 1885.
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.
Stewart, Charles
Stuart, Richard W.
Stuart's artistic career had a most novel beginning. As he recuperated in hospital from a broken leg, following a dare devil escapade on a horse,he ...
Stubbs, William J.
Professional photographer, who worked for numerous photographic firms, purchasing his own, the Batchelder firm in 1868, and continuing there until 1889, when he retired.
Sutherland, Charles
Colonial period Melbourne cartoonist.
T., C.
C. T. was a miniaturist and initialled a photographic watercolour on ivory of a portrait miniature of Mary Cowper, daughter of Commander G.B. Forster R.N., ...
Tait, R. G.
Colonial era Sydney [and Melbourne?] newspaper illustrator.
Taylor, Charles
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 ...
Teale, Goodman
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 ...
Thunder, A. C.
Thunder was an amateur artist prior to her marriage copying portraits from the court of Louis XIV. Once in Melbourne her artistic career took off ...