professional photographer, ran a Portrait Gallery at 31 Malop Street, West Geelong, Victoria, in 1865-86 in partnership with Key . Wilmot & Key photographed 'King Jerry, of the Dan-Dan-Nook (Barrabool) tribe’ some time before his death in October 1870; Brownhill noted that the large inscribed medal the Aboriginal man is wearing around his neck was a gift from the Comunn na Feinne Society, whose athletic meetings in Geelong Jerry rarely missed. Wilmot alone is cited in the Historical Records of Victoria as the photographer of a portrait of Captain Foster Fyans dated 1866 (Geelong Historical Records Centre). Coincidentally, in 1887-90 Wilmot’s studio was in Fyans Street.
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- Date written:
- 1992
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- 2011
