Robert Baxter

  • Artist (Photographer)
A restless auteur, Robert Baxter travelled regularly throughout rural southwestern New South Wales as a professional photographer whose work included both portraiture and architecture.

Citations

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

  • Lea-Scarlett, E. J. (1970), 'Nineteenth century photographers in Queanbeyan, a note’, Canberra and District Historical Society Journal, September.

  • Lea-Scarlett, E. J. & Robinson, T (1986), 'First Light on the Limestone Plains: Historic Photographs of Canberra and Queanbeyan’, Canberra, ACT.

Initial data sources

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