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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creator of
Landscape
 
creator of
Willoughby Falls
 
creator of
The Porteus Mob, from Sir Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian
 
creator of
Sunset
 
creator of
View of the Domain and Macquarie-Street, Sydney
 
creator of
A Young Lady
 
creator of
A Lady
 
creator of
A Gentleman
 
creator of
Sydney Harbour from the Macquarie Light House
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creator of
Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour Taken from Macquarie Light House in 1859
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Watercolours. Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

 
creator of
Valley of the Upper Murray from Welaregang [sic] Station
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creator of
Wollongong
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creator of
The Turning of the First Turf of the Railway in New South Wales, at Redfern
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creator of
Newcastle in 1849
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Watercolours. Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

 
creator of
Newcastle
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creator of
Kent Street, Showing Old Government Printing Office and the Library
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Watercolours. Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

 
creator of
Portraits of Australian Aborigines
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Pencil and watercolours. Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

 
creator of
five monkeys dressed as monks raising their wine glasses in a toast
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References [<ExternalResource: Phillips, N. (1976), 'John Rae', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, [Nairn, B. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, W. (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', Angus and Robertson, Sydney, NSW (facsimile reprint, 1980), 2 volumes.>, <ExternalResource: Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: (1888), 'Mr Rae's Sketches of Colonial Scenes in the Olden Time', New South Wales Commission for the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Rae, J. (1893), 'Photographs of Views of Sydney in 1842', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Jones, Shar.>, <ExternalResource: (1997), 'Collectors' List 62A', Paddington, NSW : Josef Lebovic Gallery.>]