John H. Jones b. c.1817

Also known as J. H. Jones, W. H. Jones
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Nineteenth-century watercolour painter and professional photographer, he worked in Melbourne, Victoria, producing stereoscopic photographs and landscape watercolours of Victorian scenery.
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watercolour painter and professional photographer, was probably the J.H. Jones who published 'The photographic tourist: a photographic trip to the Vale of Heath’ in four parts in the English Photographic News from 13 April to 18 May 1860. Listed as a photographic artist of 41 Collins Street West, Melbourne in 1861-62, Jones moved to St Kilda late in 1862. In September the Illustrated Melbourne Post reported receiving a sample set of stereoscopic photographs of Victorian views taken by J.H. Jones of St Kilda, including 'Many of the most remarkable bits of wood and rock scenery in the colony’ as well as some of 'the prettiest townships’. An album titled Jones’s Photographs of Australian Scenery is in the National Museum of Victoria. In August 1863 J.H. Jones exhibited three watercolours at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute: Ballarat in 1861, Lal Lal Falls and a copy of the painting Red Cap in the Vernon Gallery (London). He is possibly the photographer recorded as 'W.H. Jones’ who was operating from Foster Street, Sale, by 1870. Aged 55, this Jones died at Sale in 1872 from concussion following an accident. His negatives were taken over by Alfred Bock, who later sold them to Cornell.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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