Artists

Raised in Tasmania, Dowling painted portraits and Aboriginal subjects in Launceston and Melbourne before moving to London in 1857.

Gill documented colonial Australia in watercolours and lithographs, from Adelaide streets and exploring expeditions to the Victorian goldfields.

Adelaide-born Bowen left for London in 1914, became known for portraits and everyday scenes, and was later an Australian official war artist documenting RAF bomber crews.

A Melbourne portraitist, McInnes won the Archibald Prize seven times and taught at the National Gallery of Victoria art school.

Melbourne-born Bunny spent most of his career in Paris, where he won Salon honours for luminous mythological and seaside scenes, before returning home in the 1930s.

Born in Hobart, Piguenit painted the wild Tasmanian highlands, the Murray-Darling rivers and mountain scenery, and worked in Sydney from the 1870s.