Emily Florence Bentley

Also known as Emily Cazneau
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and professional photographer, Bentley was a colourist and miniature painter in the Freeman Brothers' Sydney photographic rooms during the late 1860s before marrying photographer Pierce Mott Cazneau. The Cazneau's lived and worked in New Zealand for several years, where their son Harold, the well-known pictorialist photogapher, was born. While in New Zealand Bentley photographed the famous

painter and professional photographer, was a colourist and miniature painter in the Freeman Brothers’ Sydney photographic rooms during the late 1860s. There she met Pierce Mott Cazneau , the Freemans’ chief operator. After their marriage she apparently assisted Mott Cazneau as a camera operator as well as colourist in his studio at Wellington, New Zealand. Cato states that she took many photographs of the Mount Tarawera eruption and its destructive aftermath and made some of her negatives into lantern slides with which she lectured at the Exhibition Building, Wellington. The Cazneaus’ well-known pictorialist photographer son, Harold (who called himself Cazneaux), was born at Wellington in 1878. The family returned to Australia in the early 1890s and settled in Adelaide.

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