Alfred R. Fenton

  • Artist (Photographer)
Fenton was well known as a photographer and thought to be one of the first to advertise the pannotype. Obsessive about his hobby, he is said to have melted down the family silver and taken over the kitchen stove to distil his brews.
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Citations

  • Webber, K., ''Photographers of Ballarat and environs’, ms.’.

  • Withers, W. B. (1887), 'History of Ballarat’, Ballarat, Vic., (facsimile reprint, 1980).

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

  • Stubbs, E.G. (1949), ''Reminiscences of A.R. Fenton’, Australian Photographic Review Archives’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Information sourced from Newton, G.

Initial data sources

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

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