professional photographer, was at Hume Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1866 when he announced that he had made several alterations to his new gallery, 'now constructed on scientific principles so as to secure the best artistic effect of light & shade’. He added he had recently received new apparatus, 'both for Landscape and Portraiture, in which is combined all the latest improvements suggested by modern art’. In 1867 he produced photographs of both sides of a triumphal arch made entirely of coal (Newcastle’s chief product) erected to welcome the Duke of Edinburgh to the city during his royal progress around Australia (Bradley album, Mitchell Library).
Smithers remained in Newcastle at various addresses until about 1871 when his Hunter Street studio was taken over by Cazneau Brothers ( see Pierce Mott Cazneau ). He is listed in Sydney from 1876 to 1880, being manager of the Sydney Photographic Company at 84 King Street in 1876-78 (according to a carte-de-visite). His studio was at Ballina in 1884-85.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
