Emily Florence Bentley

Also known as Emily Cazneau
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and professional photographer, Bentley was a colourist and miniature painter in the Freeman Brothers' Sydney photographic rooms during the late 1860s before marrying photographer Pierce Mott Cazneau. The Cazneau's lived and worked in New Zealand for several years, where their son Harold, the well-known pictorialist photogapher, was born. While in New Zealand Bentley photographed the famous
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Name
Emily Florence Bentley
Also known as Emily Cazneau
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Professional photographer (ANZSIC code: 6991)
Residence
  • c.1892- Adelaide, SA
  • c.1876 - c.1892 Wellington, New Zealand
  • c.1865 - c.1870 Sydney, NSW
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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References [<ExternalResource: Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Newton, Gael.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Robinson, Tim.>]