sketcher and professional photographer, son of Richard and Eliza Winter, sent six 'crayon’ (pastel) drawings to the Victorian Exhibition of Art in 1856 from his parents’ residence at 172 Latrobe Street, East Melbourne. According to Cato Winter had trained as a photographer with P.M. Batchelder . He had his own Bourke Street photographic studio in 1860-67 as well as being listed in partnership with his brother, Richard William Winter , at 90 Bourke Street in 1865.
At the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition Alfred Winter exhibited photographic portraits, plain and coloured. He was awarded an honourable mention for the former, though the jury remarked that while some 'are very good; others, however, are of unequal merit’. Paper prints of Tasmanian subjects are known from 1866 and in 1869-70 Winter moved to Hobart Town permanently, continuing to take portraits and advertising 'a large variety of Tasmanian views’. Like many Tasmanian photographers he photographed Truganini, the last of the Oyster Cove Aboriginal people, in about 1875. A cdv portrait of her is among the large collection of his photographs in the Archives Office of Tasmania; others are in TMAG.
A. Winter of Hobart exhibited 'three glazed frames of photographic portraits’ at the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition. He remained in business until about 1883, styling himself 'Photographer, by appointment to His Excellency the Governor’. Long states that he stopped working then despite continuing to be listed as a photographer in directories until 1887.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
