William Henry Vize b. c.1833

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William Henry Vize was a trained chemist who turned an amateur interest in photography into a second business producing portraits and landscape photographs in regional Victoria. He had photographic studios in Sale, Bairnsdale and Maffra.
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professional photographer and chemist, opened a pharmacy at Sale, Victoria, in 1858. Having become interested in photography as an amateur, he subsequently set up as a professional photographer and by August 1865 had a studio in Raymond Street, where he produced portrait and landscape photographs, mentioned in the Gippsland Times . After apparently ceasing his photographic operations for a time in order to concentrate on his pharmacy, he advertised in 1867 that he had recommenced taking portraits. Three years later he moved to Bairnsdale and opened a studio there. He also operated at Maffra before returning to Sale in 1877. The following year he died at his home in Raymond Street, aged 45, leaving his widow and several children destitute as a result of 'his long illness and his indifferent success in business’. Cartes-de-visite from his various studios survive.

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