Andrew Barrie

  • Artist (Photographer)
Eventually becoming owner of Stewart & Co., Andrew Barrie was a professional photographer and an acquaintance of the painter, Tom Roberts.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Andrew Barrie
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • c.1885- c.1890 Melbourne, Vic.
Other Occupation
  • Professional photographer
Active Period
  • c.1885- c.1890
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

photographer, was an operator at Stewart & Co., Bourke Street, and a colleague of Tom Roberts 's when he worked there. Barrie became a partner of Stewart’s, then owner of the company in 1890. He supposedly invited Roberts to return to Melbourne in 1885 to help with studio posing, lighting and backgrounds – R. worked 3 days a week for £3.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Tom Roberts
1856
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Stewart & Co.
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Citations:
  • McQueen, Humphrey, (1996), Tom Roberts, (Place: Macmillan, Sydney, NSW)
  • Topliss, Helen, (1985), Tom Roberts, 1856-1931 : a catalogue raisonée, (Place: Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic.)