Absalom West, emancipated convict, set up business as publisher of prints in Sydney (commencing with a series of engravings of the infant colony).

First art school established in Sydney by John William Lewin

Richard Read senior, first portrait painter, opens art school in Sydney

 

 

 

Two lithographic presses set up at Parramatta Observatory

Augustus Earle opens gallery in Sydney

Thomas Bock (artist and engraver) opens business in Hobart while still assigned convict 

Mechanics School of Arts opened in Sydney to promote culture

First art exhibition - held in Hobart

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Wood engraving begin to be used instead of woodcuts for newspaper illustrations

Possible first lithograph by woman artist, Maria Barney, NSW

First volume of John Gould's Birds of Australia published (Elizabeth Gould major contributor to work.)

National School of Art gives its first lecture

Robin Vaughan Hood set up business as carver, gilder (picture framer), lithographer and dealer in fine arts in Hobert

276 works displayed at the first public exhibition of paintings in Australia in Hobart's legislative chamber

S.T. Gill organises an Artists' Exhibition in Adelaide

Exhibition for the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Australia in Sydney

School of Arts established in Brisbane

Photography first used in Australia

 

 

 

First art exhibition in Melbourne

Sketch Club formed in Sydney

First Art Society formed - The South Australian Society of Arts

Earliest technical art school in Australia established - South Australian School of Arts and Crafts

Art Treasures Exhibition, Hobart

National Gallery of Victoria established

National Gallery School of Art of Victoria established

Artisans' Schools of Design established in Melbourne

Melbourne Exhibition - Ornamental and Decorative Art

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Sydney Intercolonial exhibition

Victorian Artists Society formed 

The Academy of Art was founded - later to become AGNSW (1880)

First exhibition of colonial art, under the auspices of the Academy,  held at the Chamber of Commerce,

Apsley Falls by Conrad Martens is the first work on paper by an Australian artist to be acquired by the Art Gallery of NSW  -  commissioned by the trustees and purchased for £50 out of the first government grant of £500.

Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania by WC Piguenit first oil painting by an Australian artist to be acquired by AGNSW

Sydney International exhibition

Melbourne International Exhibition

Art Society of NSW formed by Arthur and George Collingridge and other artists

Art Gallery of South Australia founded

Society of Painters in Pastel established

First regional art gallery in Australia opens at Ballarat in Victoria

Beginnings of Heidelberg group

Travelling scholarship established in Victoria - awarded to John Longstaff

Melbourne Centennial Exhibition

First Australian magazine devoted to art, Australian Art by George Collingridge

 9 x 5 Impressionist Exhibition in Melbourne

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Julian Ashton School of Arts/ Sydney Art School opens in Sydney 1890

Art Gallery of Western Australia opens

Queensland National Art Gallery opens

National Society of Mural Painters Established

Queensland National Art Gallery first Australian acquisition - Josephine Muntz-Adams's Care c.1893

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The inaugural Wynne Prize is awarded to Walter Withers for The storm

Constance Jenkyns first woman to win travelling scholarship in Australia

Magazine Art in Australia published by Sydney Ure Smith

The inaugural Archibald Prize is awarded to WB McInnes for Desbrowe Annear.

National Gallery of Australia in Canberra opens

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