William True Bennett

Also known as W. F. Bennett, William F. Bennett
  • Artist (Photographer)
Emigrating from the USA, William True Bennett was a highly regarded photographer who lived and worked mostly in Queensland. The nineteenth-century equivalent to the modern photojournalist, Bennett was highly sought after and arguably the first professional photographer known to have so specifically and comprehensively tackled Queensland - its landscape, Indigenous people and development as a separ
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associate of
Henry Goodes
1840
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Edwin Torrens Brissenden
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Thomas Glaister
1825
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Marcellin Louis Martin
1837
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
H. G. Eaton
Other occupation
associate of
T. H. Boyd
Other occupation
spouse of
née Greenwood Mary Teresa Bennett
Other occupation
associate of
H. Leslie
Other occupation
associate of
Henry Green Eaton
Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Daniel F. Metcalfe
Artist (Photographer)

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