William Lorando Jones b. c.1819

  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Nineteenth-century sculptor, professional photographer, architect, inventor and lecturer, he produced figurative statues among other things. His reputation was damaged when he was convicted for blasphemy,and he was soon forgotten colonially but enjoyed a glorified posthumous reputation in Wales.

Citations

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

  • Coleman, P. (1974), 'Obscenity’, Blasphemy, Sedition, Brisbane, Qld.

  • Gibbney, H.J. & Smith, A.G. (1987), 'A Biographical Register 1788-1939’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Gunnis, R., 'Dictionary of British Sculptors’, London, England, UK.

  • Hutchison, N. (1976), 'Early Australian Sculpture’, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery catalogue, Ballarat, Vic.

  • Scarlett, K. (1980), 'Australian Sculptors’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Stapleton, M., et al. (1981), 'In Memoriam’, Elizabeth Bay House catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • Wilkins, Charles (1908), 'The History of Merthyr Tydfil’, Merthyr Tydfil.

  • (1858), Newsletter of Australasia, January.

  • (1875), Stockwhip, 03-13.

  • (1919), Truth, 04-20.

  • Jones, W. Lorando, 'W. Lorando Jones to Sir Henry Parkes, undated holograph letter’, Parkes Correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Volume 20 (A890).

  • (1870), '(Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, Monthly Meeting Minutes)’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (manuscript A4151), 10-06.

  • Sands Sydney Directory, 1887/1888.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, C.

Initial data sources

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