Emily Barlow b. c.1836

  • Artist (Photographer)
Sponsored by the London Female Middle Class Emigration Society, Emily Barlow arrived in Melbourne in 1862 with her sister Nancy with the intention of establishing herself as a professional photographer. According to letters her sister later sent to London, within a year later she appeared to have successfully done so.

Citations

  • Clarke, Patricia (1985), 'The Governesses’, Hawthorn, Vic.

  • Information sourced from Peterson, Bob.

Initial data sources

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