Walter Dickenson

Also known as Walter Dickinson, Walter Deekinson
  • Artist (Photographer)
A professional photographer, briefly a resident of Hobart in the mid 1850s. He made portraits of a number of local identities.

Citations

  • Long, C., ''Tasmania – the first photographs’, ms’.

  • Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne.

  • (1855), Colonial Times and Tasmanian, 30 March, 27 April, 16 May, 22 June.

  • (1855), Hobarton Mercury, 5 April, 6 June.

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.

Initial data sources

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