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Price, Fowler B.
Fowler B. Price was a painter and estate agent. In 1855 he advertised as a portrait painter.
Price, George Frederick
George Frederick Price was known as a painter and/or engraver.He might also be the artist called Price whose work was shown at the 1869 Melbourne ...
Prinsep, Henry Charles, b. 1844
Harry Prinsep was active in many parts of Western Australian society. Trained in Law and associated with the east India Company he worked as a ...
Prout, John Skinner, b. 1805
Prout was a painter, lithographer, art teacher and writer. An Australian critic once described his works as 'one of those wild and scattery bits, both ...
Prout, Maria Heathilla, b. 1807
On seeing Prout perform, one critic found it gratifying and astonishing 'to find in this remote part of the British dominions, talents in the arts ...
Purkis, James, b. 1783
Purkis was primarily a merchant but he worked in the arts as a scene-painter. In 1839 he painted the scenery for 'Love la Militaire', said ...
Pybus, William, b. 1819
William Pybus a painter, was presumably the Mr Pybus who advertised in February 1854 that he 'would be happy to paint Portraits, if he could ...
Pâris, François-Edmond, b. 1806
François-Edmond Pâris was a painter, draughtsman, scholar and naval officer. He was born in Paris in 1806. Pâris entered the navy in 1820 and within ...
Quail Brothers,
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 ...
Qwist, Christian Ludwig, b. 1818
Photographer and goldsmith of Danish heritage. A resident of Bendigo and in later years Sydney, mainly noted for his design and craftsmanship of commissioned commemorative ...
R., C.
Early Sydney sketcher
Rae, John, b. 1813
"I am anxious to make some of you amateurs like myself" was Rae's plea to students at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in 1855. ...
Randall, Alfred, b. 1831
Alfred Randall was a watercolourist, illuminator, lithographer, draughtsman, surveyor and civil engineer. He drew the title page to an album of Tasmanian photographs presented to ...
Rankin,
Mrs Rankin was a miniature and botanical painter. She showed her works in the 1857 Fine Art Exhibition held at the Sydney Mechanics School of ...
Ransome, Richard
Richard Ransome was a copper engraver. In the 1850s he engraved views of Sydney scenes and buildings. Soon after 1855 Ransome moved to Melbourne.
Ravier,
"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 ...
Raworth, William H., b. 1821
Raworth could never stay still, his migrations were frequent and his residence anywhere rarely exceeded three years. He shifted between New Zealand, Australia and England ...
Read, Charles Rudston, b. 1818
Charles Rudston Read first visited Australia as a young naval officer in 1838. His career enabled him to travel to China, Brazil, the Pacific Islands ...
Read, James A.
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 ...
Read, Richard Daniel, b. 1796
Richard Read junior was a miniature, portrait and historical painter. Although by no means the only portrait painter in the colony, Read's career was one ...