Carl August Oesten b. c.1842

Also known as Shellean
  • Artist (Photographer)
Travelling photographer allegedly deserting his de facto wife and two children in Sydney, September 1861. Despite a police warrant for his arrest in February 1862, he was still at large in June 1862 and rumoured to be working as a photographer in Melbourne.

Citations

  • (1862), New South Wales Police Gazette, 02-10.

  • (1862), Victoria Police Gazette, 06-19.

  • Information sourced from Harris, H.D.

Initial data sources

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