Arthur R. Hamilton b.

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer and surveyor, he took the earliest known photographs of the Northern Territory while employed as a surveyor to Finniss's ill-fated Adams Bay expedition in 1864. He and six others abandoned the settlement in May 1865.
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Citations

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

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

  • Hill, E. (1977), 'The Territory’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Kerr, M. (1971), 'The Surveyors: The Story of the Founding of Darwin’, Adelaide, SA.

  • Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Stow, J. (1894), 'The Voyage of the Forlorn Hope’, Melbourne, Vic.

Initial data sources

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

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