George Hope Verney

Also known as Captain Verney
  • Artist (Photographer)
An amateur photographer and army officer, Verney was taking photographs at Government House, George Street, Brisbane in 1868-69. In 1877 he published two articles in the British Journal Photographic Almanac including "Useful Photographic Hints for Amateurs".

Citations

  • Johnson, W.S. (1990), 'Nineteenth-Century Photography: An Annotated Bibliography 1839-1879’, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

  • Willis, A-M. (1981), 'An introduction to early Australian photography’, Metro 56, Winter edition.

  • (1908), Australasian, 11-07.

  • (1909), Table Talk, 11-11.

  • Verney, George Hope (1877), 'The Utilizing of Amateur’s Negatives’, British Journal Photographic Almanac.

  • Willis, A-M. (1988), 'Picturing Australia: A History of Photography’, Sydney.

  • Verney, George Hope (1877), 'Useful Photographic Hints for Amateurs’, British Journal Photographic Almanac.

Initial data sources

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