Matthew Patrick Dowling b.

  • Artist (Photographer)
Dowling was a professional photographer, born in Ireland, who set up studios in Tasmania with his brother, Paul. A bitter parting in 1869 saw him accuse Paul of passing off Dowling's photographs as his own.

Citations

  • (1864), 'Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac’.

  • Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne.

  • (10 July 1858), Hobart Town Daily Mercury.

  • (12 February 1862), Hobart Town Examiner.

  • Long, C., 'Tasmania – the first photographs’, manuscript.

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.

Initial data sources

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