professional photographer, came to Sydney early in 1853 with his partner Gow (probably James Gow. The pair, who had travelled from San Francisco via the islands of the South Pacific, leased premises above Mort’s Auction Mart to exhibit their photographic panorama of San Francisco ('which illustrates on a gigantic scale the perfection to which the art has attained’) and sold daguerreotype 'portraits, miniatures, landscapes, and subjects of every description’.
Later Acley moved to Victoria. He was advertising in the Gippsland Guardian in December 1855 that he had arrived on the 15th and was taking portraits at Burn’s Royal Hotel, Tarraville. In January 1856 he was at D. Clark’s Hotel, Sale. 'Acley, daguero artist, Beechworth’, a witness in a criminal case at the Victorian Supreme Court in 1856, is listed in partnership with J. A. Rochlitz at Ford Street, Beechworth, in 1856 57. Two lithographs by A. J. Stopps , depicting Camp Buildings and the Post Office at Beechworth, are noted as having been taken 'from a daguereotype [sic] by Acley and Rochletz [sic]’ (National Library of Australia, Canberra). The pair advertised in the Ovens Directory Advertiser for 1857 that they produced portraits in all sizes, stereos and copies as well as views: 'Price, from 20s upwards’.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
newtog
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2022
