Alexander Smithers

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer and vocal proponent of modernisation in the arts. Active in Newcastle around the 1860s, he produced photographs of the triumphal arch that was erected to welcome the Duke of Edinburgh to the city during his royal progress around Australia before moving on to become manager of the Sydney Photographic Company.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 8126/1899; 8333/1882’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : 2183/1860’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 10029/1860; 11038/1862; 11806/1864; 12587/1865; 13459/1867; 14951/1869; 14484/1872; 226/1875; 1012/1877; 2835/1879’.

  • Davies, Alan; & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Vic : Oxford University Press.

  • Information sourced from Davies, Alan.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870