Colonial Victorian sketcher and pastoralist. Despite mixed success as a pastoralist in regional Victoria, the landscape and rural life inspired John Phillips' artistic career and ...
Eliza Anne Pitcairn was an art student. Her father was Robert Pitcairn, a Hobart Town solicitor. In 1852 Pitcairn was taught to draw Tasmanian flowers ...
Isaac Polack was a professional photographer working in Sydney in the second half of the 1840s. His grandfather was Solomon Joel Polack, a London miniature ...
Travelling photographers, the Quail Brothers were probably the first photographers to visit the small country town of Boorowa on the south-west slopes of New South ...
"Madame Ravier from Paris" taught drawing, perspective, monochromatic painting and French from her home in St.Kilda, and exhibited twice in the Victorian Society of Fine ...
James A. Read's "Punch" covers depicted his local imitation of London's Mr Punch dispensing 'Fun' from 'his inexhaustible bottle'. Read was also accredited for the ...
James Redaway was responsible for translating William Blandowski's drawings into a portfolio of 29 prints in etching, engraving and aquatint. These illustrations were intended for ...
John Renno worked as a scene-painter and theatre mechanist at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Princess's and the Surrey Theatre, London. In 1852 he migrated ...
Walter Renny, painter and decorator, was proprietor of the Royal Blue House, which derived its name from being 'painted in blocks of blue and white ...