Thomas Foster Chuck b. c.1826

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer and entrepreneur born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Ballarat and Daylesford he documented the explorers and early colonists of Victoria. Much of Chuck's photography was of men who had 'made good' in the colony.

Citations

  • Chuck, T., 'One Story is Good Till Another is Told’.

  • Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Chuck, T. (1872), 'Key to the Historical Picture of the Explorers and Colonists of Victoria’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Chuck, T. (1877), 'One Story is Good Till Another is Told; or, a Reply to Mr. Anthony Trollope on That Part of His Work Entitled 'Australia and New Zealand’ Relating to Victoria’, Liverpool, England, UK.

  • Fox, P. (1989), 'Images of transmission : Genealogy and ancestry’, Photofile, (Spring 1989).

  • Glover, A. (1980), 'Victorian Treasures from the La Trobe Collection’, Melbourne, Vic : State Library of Victoria.

  • Holden, R. (1988), 'Photography in Colonial Australia: The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book’, Potts Point, NSW.

  • 'Sol’ (1866), 'A wanderer among the photographic views at the Intercolonial Exhibition’, Australian Monthly Magazine, Volume 2.

  • (1966), 'Newsreel in 1862: The Grand Moving Diorama of the Victorian Exploring Expedition’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1865), Daylesford Directory.

  • (26 December 1866), Daylesford Mercury.

  • (28 October 1872), Geelong, Vic : Geelong Advertiser.

  • (29 July 1882), Gordon, Ederton and Ballan Advertiser.

  • (21 March 1874), Melbourne, Vic : Melbourne Herald.

  • 'Photographs of the Pictures in the National Gallery of Melbourne Photographed by T.F. Chuck. Under the Direction of Eugene Von Guerard, Master of the School of Painting. Edited by Marcus Clarke, Secretary to the Trustees of the Public Library and Museums’, Melbourne, Vic : Bailliere of Melbourne.

  • Information sourced from Thomson, J.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, C.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, A.

See also

  • 'The Explorers & Early Colonists of Victoria, 1872, albumen silver photograph, 49x43cm, National Libray of Australia.'.

Initial data sources

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