Samuel Nixon b. 12 September 1847

  • Artist (Photographer)
Samuel Nixon was a professional portrait photographer who started out with the Nixon Brothers firm, located in Kapunda. His carte-de-visite studio portrait of an Aboriginal man in European dress was exhibited in Sydney in 1989.
Name
Samuel Nixon
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Birth date
12 September 1847
Birth place
Birmingham, England, UK
Death date
27 December 1922
Death place
Hillston, New South Wales
Burial place
Manly Cemetery, Manly, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1862
Arrival
  • 1855
Residence
  • 1855 - Adelaide, SA
  • c.1859 - Pomanda Island, Lake Alexandrina, SA
  • 1862 - Kapunda, SA
  • c.1870-1879 - New South Wales
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870
  • Photohistory of SA, Art Gallery of South Australia