John Liddington b. c.1823

Also known as J. Siddington
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Photographer)
John Liddington was a professional photographer and photographic colourist. He advertised his artistic skills in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1859.
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professional photographer and photographic colourist, first advertised his skills as a “Photographic Artist, in Oil Colours” in the Sydney Morning Herald of 11 April 1859 (under the misprint Siddington). He then had on display overpainted photographs of Lords Palmerston, Lyndhurst and Stanley and Sir John Pakington, all of which he had taken in London in October-November 1858. In April, May and November 1859 he invited the public to view these and other examples of his oil-painted photographs at his studio over Peek’s Auction Rooms, 214 (later 309) George Street. 'These portraits’, he advertised, 'are on cardboard and go through a regular process of painting, so that nothing of the original photograph is seen; and the likeness is not only correct but as durable as any other oil painting’. By November he was also advertising that he took 'Stereoscopic pictures on paper or glass, and the plain glass portraits’.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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