photographer and collector was born in Aberdeen, Scotland 1859; arrived Tasmania 1878; collected prints, paintings and drawings of Tasmania bought by the Launceston City Council in 1927.
Purchased Anson Bros photographers.
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery (TMAG) has photographs: one of horse-drawn waggons and another of a bullock-drawn cart decorated for a parade c.1919. Also TMAG purchased in 1989-90 12 full plate gold-toned photos on glass of the East Coast c.1900 by J.W. Beattie, mounted on original frame, from the Gordon Highlander Hotel, Sorell. Also 4 photos by Beattie of the interior of TMAG 1902, donated to TMAG by Mrs F.V. Thomson, Bull Creek, WA. Many copies of earlier photos were sold by him, e.g. Nixon and Woolley photographs of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
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- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2011
