C. Knight

  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
C. Knight was a painter in Hobart in the early 1840s and is assumed to be also the photographer and photographic showman of the same name who advertised a 'lime light' show of photographs at Hobart Town in 1854. This was one of Tasmania's earliest public lantern-slide shows known to have used photographs.

painter, professional photographer(?) and photographic showman(?), signed an oil landscape of Hobart Town (National Library of Australia) in 1840. The painter may have been related to William Knight and been even more closely connected to the photographic showman C. Knight, if not the showman himself, who advertised a 'lime light’ showing of photographs of the funeral of the Duke of Wellington (taken in 1852) at Hobart Town in 1854 – one of Tasmania’s earliest public lantern-slide shows known to have used photographs. Another possible connection is with the Mr Knight who was in a photographic partnership with James Manning at Perth in 1866-69.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011