professional photographer, came to Sydney in 1853 where he became acquainted with the successful gold-miner and patron of photography B.O. Holtermann ( see Henry Beaufoy Merlin ), who may have given him advice and assistance. Müller travelled south to Yass in 1860 and possibly toured other New South Wales country towns. In 1866 he moved to the Darling Downs, Queensland, anglicised his name to Muller and established a large and successful photographic practice. His base studio was at Toowoomba, but he travelled to the Gympie goldfields, to Mount Morgan and to Cooktown, then to Brisbane in 1874. A surviving album of his photographs (p.c.) includes portraits of the Aborigines in the Darling Downs area dating from the late 1860s. The Davenport album (Downs Club, Toowoomba), presented by Toowoomba residents to G.H. Davenport on his departure for England in 1877, contains a large number of his photographs together with work by other Queensland photographers.
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