Oliver Godfrey

  • Artist (Photographer)
listed as a photographer in Newcastle from 1899-1909. He also painted after photographs of ships under sail that he sold from his studio.
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marine painter and photographer, is listed as a photographer in Newcastle from 1899-1909. He also painted after photographs of ships under sail to sell in his studio. Anecdotal evidence from his family suggests that he had formal artistic training and some painted ship portraits are signed by him alone, some with others. Godfrey worked in Newcastle along with other ship portraitists – McLean Studios, Frederick Temple West and George Woolston – while Thomas Laidlaw and Elizabeth Harris worked in Sydney. Godfrey’s sailing ship The Jones Brothers c.1900, oil on board (p.c.) is illustrated by Fletcher (p.142).

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1999
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2011

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