John Fereday b. 8 November 1813

Also known as Reverend J. Fereday
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Best known as a keen amateur photographer, the Reverend Fereday took photos of the Bass Strait Islanders while on regular mission voyages and he is credited with producing the first known visual record of the European sealers and their indigenous wives and children.
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Citations

  • (December 1973), 'Beyond the pale: The Islander community of Bass Strait in the nineteenth century’, Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol. 20, no. 4, .

Initial data sources

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

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