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

Citations

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

  • Information sourced from Newton, Gael.

  • Information sourced from Robinson, Tim.

Initial data sources

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