George Fordyce Story b. 4 June 1800

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Medical practitioner, amateur photographer and botanist who arrived in Tasmania in the late 1820s to serve as a government surgeon at various locations. Story spent most of his time in Swansea where he took photographs now in the University of Tasmania collection. Two watercolours of natural history subjects, believed to have been painted by Story, are in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum an

Citations

  • Maiden, J. H. (1909), 'Records of Tasmanian botanists’, Hobart, Tas : Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for the year 1909, n.d.

  • 'G.F. Story Papers’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

  • Davies, A.; & Stanbury, P. (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Vic : Oxford University Press.

  • Information sourced from Glover, Margaret.

Initial data sources

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