B. George Fairman

  • Artist (Photographer)
B. George Fairman, who opened a studio in Launceston in the late 1860s, appears to have been a society photographer, since his stock-in-trade was the carte-de-visite portrait photograph.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
B. George Fairman
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • c.1865- Charles Street, Launceston, Tasmania
  • c.1860- c.1865 Victoria
Active Period
  • c.1860- c.1869
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

professional photographer, was working in Victoria in the early 1860s. In July 1863 he advertised in the McIvor News that a 'Correct Portrait’ could be obtained from his Photographic Rooms at Heathcote for 1s, while 'Superior Carte-de-Visite Portraits’ cost 12s 6d for six or £1 for twelve. Fairman had moved to Tasmania by the late 1860s and opened a studio in Charles Street, Launceston. Tasmanian carte-de-visite portrait photographs are held at the Devonport Gallery and Art Centre and in the Archives Office of Tasmania.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
Collections
Citations:
  • Long, C., Tasmania - the first photographs, (Place: Manuscript)
  • Randell, J.O, (1985), McIvor, (Place: Burwood, Vic.)