George C. Wilmot

Also known as George C. Willmot
  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer, ran a Portrait Gallery at 31 Malop Street, West Geelong, Victoria, in 1865-86 in partnership with Key. Wilmot & Key photographed 'King Jerry, of the Dan-Dan-Nook (Barrabool) tribe,' and made a portrait of Captain Foster Fyans.
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professional photographer, ran a Portrait Gallery at 31 Malop Street, West Geelong, Victoria, in 1865-86 in partnership with Key . Wilmot & Key photographed 'King Jerry, of the Dan-Dan-Nook (Barrabool) tribe’ some time before his death in October 1870; Brownhill noted that the large inscribed medal the Aboriginal man is wearing around his neck was a gift from the Comunn na Feinne Society, whose athletic meetings in Geelong Jerry rarely missed. Wilmot alone is cited in the Historical Records of Victoria as the photographer of a portrait of Captain Foster Fyans dated 1866 (Geelong Historical Records Centre). Coincidentally, in 1887-90 Wilmot’s studio was in Fyans Street.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Davies, Alan; & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Melbourne, Vic : Oxford University Press.>, <ExternalResource: Brownhill, W.R. (1955), 'The History of Geelong and Corio Bay', Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.>, <ExternalResource: (1983), 'Historical Records of Victoria 2A', Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Davies, Alan.>]