John Bernasconi

Also known as J. Bernasconi
  • Artist (Carver)
John Bernasconi turned a talent for woodcarving into a business as a picture framer. His award-winning work was exhibited both in Australia and overseas and a portrait of Chief Justice Alfred Stephens is but one work to feature a frame by Bernasconi.
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Citations

  • Cant, Elizabeth (1999), 'Entrepreneurship and Picture Frame Making in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Lawrence Cetta and the Quick Profit’, The World of Antiques and Art incorporating the Australian Antique Collector 57th edition, Jul-Dec, pp. 44-45.

  • Fahy, K. & Simpson, A. (1998), 'Australian Furniture: pictorial history and dictionary 1788-1938’, Sydney, NSW, pp. 21 & 26.

  • Maguire, R. (1986), 'The Fine Art of Framing’, Australian Antique Collector, vol. 31, Jan-Jun, pp.46-47.

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