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Displayed at Messrs Greenfield and Barraclough's amateur art exhibition 1892. It is suggested this piece is related to an example of taxidermy exhibited at the ...

Fern, Matthew, b. 1831

Matthew Fern was a woodcarver of exceptional skills who flourished in Queensland during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is difficult to extract ...

Creeth, May, b. 1854

May Creeth was born in 1854. She was a painter, china painter, teacher, photographer and pyrographer. Creeth trained in art at the South Kensington Schools ...

Gibbs, May, b. 1877

Creator of the famous tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the Gumnut babies, Gibbs began her career as a cartoonist and hoped to be recognised as ...

May, Alfred

Late colonial sketcher. May compiled 'A Week on the Wild Wave', a sketchbook held in Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

King, Charles McArthur, b. 1824

Charles McArthur King, was a sketcher, pastoralist and magistrate. A sketchbook of coastal and landscape scenes, mostly of New Zealand, drawn between 1850 and 1899 ...

McComas, Francis, b. 1874

Tasmanian born landscape painter who later trained and worked in Sydney, NSW. McComas later migrated to California where he made his name as an artist.

McCrae, George Gordon, b. 1833

Primarily a poet, McCrae kept a diary and sketched; his work was influenced by the Indigenous population at Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula. His ...

McCrae, Georgiana Huntly, b. 1804

A prolific painter. McCrae produced a variety of work throughout her life. She received much acclaim for her miniatures and portraits.

McCrae, Charles

Architect who was listed as a working member of the West Australian Society of Arts in 1896.

McCubbin, Frederick, b. 1855

From the 1880s, when his first mature work was painted, until just before his death in 1917, Frederick McCubbin painted some of Australia's most loved ...

McDonald, Donald

McDonald exhibited his photographs in several exhibitions, including the London International Exhibition, and worked as a professional photographer in Melbourne. One of his stand-out pictures ...

McDonald, Isabel Agnes, b. 1871

It is believed Isabel McDonald studied under both Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts, powerhouses of Australian romanticism. Roberts was certainly known to her though, even ...