Thomas Adams Hill

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and professional photographer, worked in Melbourne between 1855 and 1869. He produced portraits in every known photographic medium and he also painted miniatures on ivory.
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Citations

  • Ennis, H. (2000), 'Mirror with a Memory’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Wrongly calls him 'Adam’ but includes a good cdv of a man in front of a painted backdrop taken c.1862-3 at his Melbourne Gallery.

  • Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press.

  • Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Ennis, H. (2000), 'Mirror with a Memory’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Wrongly calls him 'Adam’ but includes a good cdv of a man in front of a painted backdrop taken c.1862-3 at his Melbourne Gallery.

  • Information sourced from Davies, Alan.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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