professional photographer, is listed in Huxtable’s Commercial Directory of Ballarat for 1857 as an 'artist’ of Plank Road. By September 1859 he was in Melbourne, a partner in the firm of Jones and Baker, 'photographic artists’ of 127 Elizabeth Street, opposite the Post Office, who were then advertising their new address and offering 'a correct likeness’ for 2s 6d. On 13 October 1859 a man named Longthorpe or Goldthorpe was charged on warrant with wilfully destroying a quantity of paint and other property 'belonging to Jones [a photographer] at Sunbury near Melbourne’, who may have been Richard Jones. According to the Melbourne Directory , R.A. Jones had his own studio at 127 Elizabeth Street in 1861, at the same time as the better-known photographer Henry Jones was at 107 Elizabeth Street.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
