John Rae b. 1813

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
"I am anxious to make some of you amateurs like myself" was Rae's plea to students at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in 1855. He was referring to his experiments in photography, yet the word amateur hardly applies. Anything he turned his hand to he seemed to master and his interests encompassed both the business and cultural worlds. In his artmaking he was most concerned with "fidelity to nat
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    Private collections.

  • Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
  • Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

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  • Sydney Mechanics School of Arts (associate of)