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Tristram, John William, b. 1870
Self-taught English-born painter who arrived in Sydney as a child in 1883. He was a resident of Mosman for most of his life and was ...
Vial, William, b. 1821
coach-builder, who may have sketched the scene where he intervened in the attempted assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf Beach, Sydney on 12 ...
Vize, William Henry, b. 1833
William Henry Vize was a trained chemist who turned an amateur interest in photography into a second business producing portraits and landscape photographs in regional ...
Wade, William Richard, b. 1803
Drawing teacher, curator and librarian, Wade was also a clergyman before his unorthodox views on baptism forced him into retirement. He is probably best known ...
Wadham, William Joseph, b. 1863
William Wadham was a prominent figure in the Adelaide art scene of the late 1880s. He and his brother held an exhibition of works done ...
Wall, William Sheridan, b. 1815
curator of the Australian Museum from 1845 to 1858. Wall contributed natural history drawings on a regular basis to the first series of the Illustrated ...
Walsh, William Horatio, b. 1812
sketcher and clergyman. Walsh was involved in the erection of several Sydney churches. He was a keen sketcher and a member of the Sydney Sketching ...
Waugh, James William
Sketcher, stationer and art supplier, publisher and bookseller. Published 'Waugh and Cox's Directory of Sydney' in 1855. A sketchbook attributed to Waugh (ML) dates from ...
Westall, William, b. 1781
William Westall was the appointed landscape artist on Matthew Flinders' 1801 "Investigator" expedition which was the first maritime circumnavigation of Australia.
Weston, William Pritchard, b. 1804
Elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and twice served short terms as premier. His fifteen known drawings in pencil, pen-and-ink and wash originally in ...
White, William
Drawing teacher and architect. He designed St Paul's Church of England at West Maitland that is still in use.
Williams, Caroline, b. 1945
New Zealand female painter who spent more time in London, Sydney and Melbourne where she married a gallery owner and exhibited extensively thereafter.
Williams, Eleanor
Photographer, is the Canberra-based widow of the Aboriginal writer and activist Kelvin Gilbert. She illustrated his books Child's dreaming (1992), Black from the edge (1994) ...
Williams, Florence Elizabeth, b. 1833
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Williams, Frank, b. 1834
Good-looking travelling male in colonial Victoria who may have been more thief than photographer since there are more records of him stealing photographic equipment than ...
Williams, Fred, b. 1927
Fred Williams' paintings of the Australian landscape can be seen as a modernist reinterpretation of the Heidelberg tradition. He was a figurative artist who valued ...
Williams, Frederick Matthew, b. 1855
English painter who was trained in Melbourne and travelled to Perth, via the WA goldfields before becoming President of WA Society of Art. Before leaving ...
Williams, G. A.
Colonial painter, exhibited landscapes at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute exhibition in 1869.