John Bernasconi

Also known as J. Bernasconi
  • Artist (Carver)
John Bernasconi turned a talent for woodcarving into a business as a picture framer. His award-winning work was exhibited both in Australia and overseas and a portrait of Chief Justice Alfred Stephens is but one work to feature a frame by Bernasconi.

professional woodcarver, came from Italy and worked in Sydney from the early 1850s as a picture-frame maker. Bernasconi and Baldwin won prizes for their picture frames exhibited at the Australian Museum in 1854 prior to the Paris International Exhibition of 1855, including that around a portrait of Chief Justice Alfred Stephens (1854, Banco Court, Sydney). Other frames are in the Colonial Secretary’s Building, Sydney. J. Bernasconi also exhibited at other intercolonial/international exhibitions.

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011