professional photographer, advertised his Brisbane Daguerrean Gallery late in 1856, but seems rapidly to have fallen on hard times. He moved from central premises in Queen Street with regular opening hours to sharing a bootmaker’s cottage in Ann Street and offering sittings at private residences. Then he vanished from newspaper advertisements altogether, the touching sentiment of the verses in his original advertisement having apparently been to no avail:
When children dear are gambolling near, with hearts and faces light,
And friends we love around us move in life’s unmix’d delight,
We soon forget that time will yet take one by one from view,
That soon or late 'twill be our fate to bid the last adieu!
Then let us, while we’ve Fortune’s smile, to Smith’s at once repair,
The Artist will, with magic skill, Daguerreotype us there.
Then form and face Time can’t efface, but with our friends they’ll stay,
Smile on them still, and help to fill our places when away!
- Writers:
- Fisher, Rod
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
