R. H. Acley

Also known as Ackley, Aclay
  • Artist (Photographer)
Travelling from San Francisco, this professional photographer worked in Sydney and Victoria. His daguerreotype practice specialised in portraits and landscape views.

Citations

  • Squires, D et al. (1990), 'Gippsland in Focus’, Bairnsdale, Vic.

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

  • (1855), Gippsland Guardian, December.

  • (1857), 'Ovens Directory Advertiser’, Victoria.

Initial data sources

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