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Duterrau, Benjamin, b. 1767
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Earle, Augustus, b. 1793
Augustus Earle travelled extensively during his lifetime, producing paintings and lithographs of his travels in the Mediterranean, North & South America, the Pacific and Atlantic ...
East, John B.
A portrait painter and miniaturist, J. B. East's best known work is his oil portrait of Jamaican boatman, Billy Blue. His lively watercolours of Europeans ...
Edgar, Edmund, b. 1800
Edmund Edgar worked in London as a house painter and engraver before being convicted of robbery and sentenced to transportation for life. He used several ...
Elyard, Samuel, b. 1817
Influenced by his teacher John Skinner Prout and by Conrad Martens, Elyard favoured picturesque buildings, street scenes and landscapes. He was a colourful figure who ...
Emmons, George F.
Emmons had a distinguished naval career and served as lieutenant on Wilkes round-the-world exploration expedition. His wash drawing of three Aborigines in Sydney in 1839 ...
Englehard, A. Marie
Englehard's watercolour 'My Daughters Victoria and Ann, Perth, Australia. 1838' is perhaps more likely to be Perth, Tasmania as no Englehard is listed as living ...
Errington, Eliza Helen, b. 1808
A painter and sketcher who lived in Tasmania where lithographer John Skinner Proust was regarded as a key influence on her work. She also spent ...
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Evans, George William, b. 1780
Although primarily known as an explorer and surveyor, G.W. Evans's artistic efforts have considerable merit. His topographical vistas of Hobart Town, Parramatta and Sydney Harbour ...
Fairholme, George Knight Erskine, b. 1822
Described by his contemporaries as 'the most handsome man ever to come through Cunningham's Gap', the watercolourist and polymath George Fairholme had a fairytale life. ...
Farthing, J.
J. Farthing was a sketcher who made a drawing of Hobart Town around the year 1836. The work is at the Mitchell Library, State Library ...
Fernyhough, William Henry, b. 1809
Fernyhough produced silhouette portraits of Sydney personalities and of Aborigines. He is believed to have introduced zincography to New South Wales.
Fewson, Thomas, b. 1797
Captain Fewson's watercolour view of Kangaroo Island (1837) is the earliest surviving visual record of the first South Australian settlers' inhospitable landing place.
Findlay, G.
A teacher who advertised in 1835 that he would be opening an 'Academy for young gentlemen' in Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, where drawing would be ...
Fisher, Elizabeth, b. 1815
As Elizabeth Morphett, her pictures of a rose and a convolvulus were exhibited at the 1859 South Australian Society of Arts exhibition. They are presumed ...
Fitchett,
A scene-painter and carpenter who painted the scenery for performances at the Theatre Royal in 1833 and who redecorated the auditorium of the Royal Victoria ...
FitzRoy, Robert, b. 1805
A sketcher, FitzRoy served as a naval officer on the Beagle with Charles Darwin and was later influenced by the work of official expedition artist, ...
Fitzmaurice, Lewis Roper, b. 1816
A sketcher, surveyor and sailor who while serving on the Beagle, made some of the drawings subsequently reproduced in Stokes's Discoveries in Australia. He also ...
Fitzpatrick, Michael, b. 1816
Fitzpatrick contributed an untitled pen-and-ink drawing to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition but is thereafter thought that he only continued to sketch as a hobby. ...
Fletcher, Mary Ann
An art and schoolteacher who advertised as a teacher for young ladies in Hobart and Launceston, offering private drawing lessons.