professional photographer, was in partnership with J. Noble Wilson in 1856, their studio being in Lydiard Street, Ballarat, Victoria. Cowley and Wilson exhibited a number of daguerreotypes of celebrities at their shop, including a portrait of Lola Montez, but it is unlikely that Cowley took any of them. Their assistant, J.A. Rochlitz , was the camera operator.
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