George Henry Kendall b. 1 January 1840

  • Professional Photographer
A professional photographer and noted baritone singer, Kendall worked in rural Victoria and based with permanent studio in Echuca from circa 1867-1890 and latterly at Cobram from the 1890s combining roles at hotel keeper and photographer. He ran an art union using his own views and in 1872 published an album of prints and portraits entitled 'Echuca Illustrated'. In 1873 he acquired Charles Bayliss's negatives of Echuca.
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Citations

  • Kendall, George Henry (1872), 'Echuca Illustrated’.

  • Stephens & Bartholomew (1867), 'Sandhurst, Castlemaine, Echuca … Directory’.

  • (1866), 'Bailliere’s National Directory of Victoria 1866-67’.

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

  • Johnson, W.S. (1990), 'Nineteenth-Century Photography: An Annotated Bibliography 1839-1879’, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Initial data sources

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

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Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Other occupation
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residences
  • c.1866 - c.1890-1899 Echuca, Vic.
  • c.1885 - c.1889 Shepparton, Vic. ( Sandy Barrie lists Kendall in Shepparton in teh late 1880s but there appears to be no evidence he had left Echuca )
  • c.1895 - 1905 Cobram, Victoria, Australia (By 1895 Kendall was the proprietor of the Cobram Hotel while offerring photographic services by visiting photographers and continuing with making views. He became proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, Cobram in 1902)
  • c.1866 - c.1872 Echuca, Vic.
  • c.1885 - c.1889 Shepparton, Vic.
Other occupations
  • Professional photographer (ANZSIC code: 6991) c.1867 - c.1900 Victoria
  • Professional photographer (ANZSIC code: 6991)
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