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professional photographer, was the proprietor of the Photographic Skylight Gallery at 185 George Street, Sydney in 1857. The following year Denslow’s Photographic Portrait Gallery was at 84 King Street (over Dixson’s Clock Store) where it remained until 1863. The Sydney Morning Herald of 20 July 1861 praised his paper photographic portraits overpainted in watercolour, particularly those of Mr Forster and Mr Eagar. He also took ambrotypes. Two that survive are of Minnie (Mary Sophia) and Charlotte Eliza Cowper of Wivenhoe, Camden (ML). The unsigned contemporary ambrotype of their father Sir Charles Cowper, Colonial Secretary and sometime Premier of New South Wales, may also have been taken by Denslow.

On 7 September 1863 Denslow advertised that 'Paper portraits, for sending by post, should be taken 2 days before the mail closes’. Like many other photographers, he also claimed to provide first-class portraits at lower prices than those from any other gallery. Denslow quitted the business towards the end of 1863. In December the studio was advertised as 'Late Denslow’s Portrait Gallery’.

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Date written:

1992

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2011