Joseph Henry Nixon b. 21 April 1844

  • Artist (Photographer)
Joseph Nixon emigrated with his family from Birmingham to South Australia in 1855. For a time, Joseph and his brothers worked together as photographers under the name 'Nixon Brothers'. Joseph also spent several years as a travelling photographer, servicing southern South Australia during the nineteenth century.
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professional photographer and farmer, was born on 21 April 1844 in Birmingham, England, son of William Millington Nixon . He had a photographic studio at Robe, South Australia, in 1867-68 and also worked as a photographer at Kapunda. From 1862 he was probably one of the proprietors of the widespread firm of Nixon Brothers whose cartes-de-visite survive from New South Wales and Victoria as well as South Australia. Nixon married Sophia Short on 26 June 1873 and they had two children. Sophia died in 1910 and Joseph subsequently married Ruby, with whom he had a further child. He died at Melbourne on 28 April 1926.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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Sources
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870
  • Photohistory of SA, Art Gallery of South Australia
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870
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References [<ExternalResource: Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Statton, J. (1986), 'Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885', Adelaide, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Noye, R.J. (2007) ‘Dictionary of South Australian Photography 1845-1915’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. CD-ROM.>] [<ExternalResource: Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Statton, J. (1986), 'Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885', Adelaide, SA.>]
See alsos [<ExternalResource: Photohistory SA Archived Website>, <ExternalResource: Robinson, Julie and Zagala, Maria (2007), 'A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s to 1940s', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.>, <ExternalResource: Art Gallery of South Australia>]