photographer, Sydney. Advertisement: “High Class Photography … Charlemont & Co. announce to the elite of Sydney that we have opened those premises in the Royal Arcade under the designation of 'Grosvenor Galleries’, where we shall carry on the success of High-class Photography. We have come accompanied by a staff of competent artists, trained in Leading English, Continental and American Studios at the head of whom is Mr Thomas C. Cleave … It will be our aim to produce only Portraiture of the highest artistic excellence, which we venture to presage will at once obtain for us an extensive clientele” ( Bulletin , 20 March 1886, p.7). “Mr Thomas C. Cleave … has had the privileged and distinguished honour of being afforded the opportunity of assisting at the Photographing of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria and has also himself personally photographed H.R. Highness The Prince of Wales, in addition to making pictures of many members of the Governing Families, Nobility and Aristocracy of England” ( Bulletin , 20 March 1886, p.7).
Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888: NSW Court – no.430 Charlemont & Co., Royal Arcade, Sydney – Frames containing Display of Photography. Second Prize – Charlemont & Co. – Rpyal Arcade, Sydney – Photographs ( Report by the Honorable R. Burdett Smith, CMG, MLC, Executive Commissioner for the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne 1888-9 , Sydney, 1890, p.37).
Listed Sands 1895.
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- 1999
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