Scene-painter, journalist, politician and businessman born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Victoria he painted theatrical scenery to pay for his education.
Wood engraver, born in Ireland. Clayton was convicted of forgery and transported to NSW with his father where he went on to become Sydney's leading ...
Professional photographer who operated studios in rural Victoria and NSW in 1891-1899. Cleary set up and photographed extraordinary tableaux of Aboriginal subjects, regularly using two ...
Sydney based railway fettler and amateur oil painter with an art career lasting over sixty years. Dean was a regular exhibitor with the (Royal) Art ...
Painter and teacher, ran a 'teaching academy' in Bourke Street, Surry Hills, with his daughters during the late 1840s. Thomas Dodd twice exhibited in the ...
An artist of English origin, Duckett came to Australia in the 1860's. Despite befriending Eugène Von Guérard he found Melbourne hostile and moved to Sydney, ...
Thomas A. Durnford was a painter. In 1865 he produced a life-size posthumous portrait of the bushranger Ben Hall, that included several the fatal gunshot ...