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Aikenhead, William, b. 1842
An avid amateur photographer and professional journalist. Aikenhead held many public offices and was active in local Tasmanian politics until his death.
Allport, Curzon, b. 1837
Sketcher, amateur photographer and solicitor. Son of artist Mary Morton Allport. Allport was the first president of the Tasmanian Photographic, Science and Art Association, elected ...
Anson, Joshua, b. 1854
Joshua Anson was a photographer, one of the Anson Brothers photographic firm in Hobart with Henry Joseph Anson and Richard Edwin Anson. In a court ...
Baily, Henry Hall, b.
Henry Hall Baily was born in Tasmania but was trained at the London School of Photography in the early 1860s. A professional photographer, he exhibited ...
Barnett, H. Walter, b. 1862
A professional photographer working in Australia and Europe in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century, Barnett was arguably Australia's first world-class portrait photographer. His sitters ...
Beattie, John Watt, b. 1859
John Watt Beattie was a collector and photographer in turn-of-the-century Tasmania. Three years before his death in 1930, Launceston City Council purchased his collection of ...
Bock, Alfred, b. 1835
One of the pioneers of early photography in the 19th century along with his stepfather Thomas Bock, Alfred Bock also pursued a number of other ...
Cawston, William, b. 1828
Professional photographer, framer and gilder. Arrived in Tasmania as a convict and founded the photographic studio Cawston and Sons.
Chuck, Thomas Foster, b. 1826
Professional photographer and entrepreneur born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Ballarat and Daylesford he documented the explorers and early colonists of Victoria. Much of Chuck's ...
Ferris, Thomas D.
A professional photographer who opened a Daguerrean Gallery in Launceston in 1855 and worked later in Melbourne and Bendigo, Victoria.
Hull, Hugh Munro, b. 1818
Hugh Munro Hull was a civil servant and possibly also an amateur photographer. He organised Tasmania's exhibits for several intercolonial and international exhibitions, including the ...
King, Thomas F., b. 1821
King was a photographer and cabinet maker who lived and worked in Tasmania though he exhibited his work in Melbourne in 1866 and 1867.
Marchant, Philip James, b. 1846
Philip Marchant was a colonial photographer in South Australia. Skilled in various photographic processes, he produced a double portrait of himself while showing no signs ...
McCormick, Robert, b. 1800
McCormick is neither remembered for his excellence in the navy nor blessed with a magnificent portfolio that might redeem his deficiencies in this area. Although ...
Morris, William Knibb, b. 1833
Sketcher, amateur photographer and salesman from Tasmania. Morris retained an interest in photography all his life.
Rowe, Walter, b. 1847
Walter Rowe emigrated from England to South Australia in 1847. He was a photographer based in Clare, but also travelled his services throughout the mid-north ...
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Sommer, John Conrad, b. 1828
Continental photographer, house painter and drawing teacher, who liked to keep up to date with the latest fashions in photography for commercial purposes.
Thwaites, Walter William, b. 1814
A miniature painter and engraver, W.W. Thwaites (1814-1888)and sons established themselves as professional photographers in West and South Australia in the 1860s. However, despite such ...
Thwaites, Walter William McLean, b. 1840
Learnt photography in his father's Hobart studio, W. Thwaite jnr embarked on his own solo career touring every existing Australian colony from 1860 to 1888.
Wherrett, Charles, b. 1832
Professional portrait and landscape photographer working primarily in Hobart, Tasmania. He also worked in Castlemaine and Bendigo, Victoria.