Professional photographers inadvertently associated with the legal battle and commercial rivalry between Antoine François Jean Claudet and Richard Beard over the patent for daguerreotypes. The ...
This artist's son operated the Geraldton Lead Mines and international cargo ships. His watercolour works included landscape sketches and scenes of shipboard life, studies of ...
Arriving in Melbourne in the 1860s, William Bear quickly found himself employment as a photographer with William Insull Burman before setting up his own photography ...
A Colonial-era cartoonist, illustrator and scene-painter, Alfred Clint contributed works to the Ballarat and Sydney editions of Punch among others. Equally well-known for his work ...
George John Freeman was a professional photographer and photographic showman. He arrived at South Australia in 1861. Throughout his professional career Freeman enthusiastically experimented with ...
Gregory worked in Auckland where he opened a photographic studio, painted landscapes and still lifes and carved pew ends and altars for New Zealand churches.
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 ...
Long-lived nineteenth-century amateur sketcher.Her drawing-book, a work of her adolescence, contains pencil sketches of buildings in England and France and two watercolours of flowers.
A painter, she became well known as a copyist, exhibiting in Melbourne and Sydney. Her work was purchased by wealthy colonials to decorate their English ...
A dentist, sketcher and amateur photographer. He exhibited some photographs at a South Australian exhibition in 1859. Although he spent his time working as a ...
Sarah Ann Steffanoni was a gold bullion embroiderer, born in Warwick, England, who moved with her family, along with the Fairfax family to Sydney, Australia ...