Thomas Wingate b. 9 March 1807

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Retired army officer who came to Sydney in 1852. Wingate worked in the media of photography, painting and drawing. He exhibited a photographic panorama of Sydney taken from his Potts Point home in the 1862 London International Exhibition.
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Citations

  • Barton, L. (April 1985), 'Thomas Wingate’, Melbourne, Vic : Deutscher Fine Art Catalogue, .

  • Archer, M. (1969), 'British Drawings in the India Office Library Volume I: Amateur Artists’, London, England, UK : Her /His Majesty’s Stationery Office.

  • Holden, R. (1988), 'Photography in Colonial Australia: The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book’, Potts Point, New South Wales.

  • Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light’, Canberra, ACT.

  • (1987), Melbourne, Vic : Deutscher Fine Art Catalogue, November-December 1987.

  • 'Wingate Papers’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library [manuscript A3804].

  • Information sourced from McDonald, Patricia R.

  • Malor, Deborah; & Hamilton, Miriam (1998), 'Elusive Compiler Thomas Wingate’, Australian Antique Collector 55th edn (July-December 1998), 166-69.

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

Initial data sources

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

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Arrivals
  • 1852 (arrived aboard the Havering)
  • 16 June 1852 (arrived aboard the Havering)