professional photographer, was working in Bourke Street East, Melbourne, before 1861, in partnership with Luckin . Their studio was called the Excelsior Portrait Rooms. The pair were awarded a first-class certificate for their photographs of Melbourne buildings shown at the 1861 Victorian Exhibition, then received an honourable mention for photographic excellence when the collection was sent on to the 1862 London International Exhibition. A collection of Cox & Luckin’s Melbourne photographs (La Trobe Library), which includes views of shops, Melbourne Hospital, the Governor Hotham Hotel, the Hawthorn district and the Melbourne Exhibition buildings in William Street, taken 'at the time of the Victorian Exhibition, 1861’, is probably this prize-winning collection. In 1862 the firm was listed as H. Cox & Co. in the Melbourne Directory and Luckin was no longer a partner.
The La Trobe Library holds a wash view by H. Cox, Sydney Looking South from the Cove , dated 1839, but this seems unlikely to be the same artist. However, the 'S.’ Cox listed as an 'artist’ of Graham Street, Sandridge (Port Melbourne), in the Melbourne Directory for 1865 may well be the photographer.
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