Charles Nettleton b. c.1825

  • Artist (Photographer)
A professional photographer, he is generally regarded as the major photographic recorder of Melbourne's growth from settlement to great city. Working as the official photographer to the Victorian government and to the City of Melbourne Corporation, Nettleton's most famous photograph is a portrait of Ned Kelly taken the day before he was hanged.

Citations

  • Nettleton, Charles (1868), 'Melbourne Illustrated by Photographs’.

  • (June 1989), 'Masterpieces of Australian Photography’, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Paddington, NSW (catalogue), .

  • Gittens, J. (1974), 'Charles Nettleton’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

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

  • Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Sierp, A. (1972), 'Colonial Life in Victoria: Fifty Years of Photography 1855-1905’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Willis, Anne-Marie (1988), 'Picturing Australia: A History of Photography’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1866), Melbourne, Vic.: Age, 09-28.

  • (1866), Illustrated Melbourne Post, 07-27.

  • '[Nettleton biographical file]’, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Information sourced from Evans, Joyce.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, A.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, C.

See also

  • 'Charles Nettleton, Volunteer Fire Brigade, Ballarat East c. 1865, albumen silver photograph, 23 x 26.3cm, in an album assembled 1860s. Australian National Gallery.'.

Initial data sources

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