C. A. H. Williamson b. c.1807

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Photographer)
Colonial male photographer whose diverse practice of producing wet-plate albumen prints, ambrotypes, alabastrine portraits and daguerreotypes seems to have existed for only two years before he became a merchant and a publican in Launceston.
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Citations

  • Lake, Robyn; and Mulford, Therese (August 2002), 'A stranger to the town: The life of colonial painter Frederick Strange’, Australiana, p. 68-88, .

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

  • Craig, C.; & Mead, I. (1963), 'Frederick Strange – artist – c.1807-1873’, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 97.

  • Moore, W. (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson (facsimile reprint 1980), 2 volumes.

  • Long, C., 'Tasmania – the first photographs’, Manuscript.

  • Stilwell, G. T., Information sourced form.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions

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