photographer and/or art dealer, showed a 'Photographic view of Sir Charles Hotham’s entrance into Melbourne’ at the 1854 Melbourne Exhibition, giving his address – not as a photographer – as 7 Commercial Chambers, Melbourne. Bryce Ross was possibly the art dealer Ross whose 'Gallery of Australian Arts’ opened at 19 Bridge Street, Sydney (over Buist & Sons’ pianoforte warehouse) in 1855. If so, he is unlikely to have taken the photograph himself. He showed only other people’s work in his gallery, including 'Messrs. Martens, Smith, Campbell, Dexter, Balcombe, Fowles, Peacock and the late Mr. Nichols [William Nicholas]’. Open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., entrance charges were a shilling for adults and sixpence for children, with evening viewing by gaslight. It soon closed.
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