painter and professional photographer, was living in High Street, Heathcote, Victoria, in June 1866 when he advertised 'colouring in oil or watercolour, cartes-de-visite &c.’. He offered to colour all kinds of photographs but specialised in painting over scenery, views of private residences and 'mining plant’. At the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition Walsh showed examples of his original oil and watercolour paintings and B. Lee exhibited two of Walsh’s watercolours, Bush Scene in Australia and Bushmen and Horse . He also appears to be the Mr Walsh who painted The Dying Bushman on the Plains , described in 1865 as a picture of a horse and a man dying from thirst by the side of a dried-up waterhole. In the opinion of the McIvor Times , 'the artist has been particularly successful in giving his picture that peculiar warm glow which characterizes the close of a hot summer’s day on the parched plains’. In June 1869 Walsh was reported to have taken good local view photographs, including a scene of the new iron box-girder bridge over the Campaspe River at Redesdale from the Heathcote side. He was still at Heathcote in November 1871.
- Writers:
- Fox, Paul
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
