Benjamin Saunders

  • Artist (Photographer), (Painter)
Benjamin Saunders was an oil painter and professional photographer, who showed his paintings in several exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney in the late 1800s.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Benjamin Saunders
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1861- 11 Thompson Street, Williamstown, Melbourne, Victoria
  • c.1857- Emerald Hill (South Melbourne), Victoria
Active Period
  • c.1857- c.1873
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

painter and professional photographer, showed an oil painting, Fruit and Game , at the 1857 exhibition of the Victorian Society of Fine Arts, giving his address as Emerald Hill (South Melbourne). He was listed as a photographer at 11 Thompson Street, Williamstown in the Melbourne Directory for 1861 but seems to have also retained his Emerald Hill premises from which he sent four paintings (all copies from European originals) to the 1873 New South Wales Agricultural Society Exhibition, Sydney.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Victorian Society of Fine Arts
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
New South Wales Agricultural Society
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Fruit and Game
Date
1857
New South Wales Agricultural Society Exhibition
1873
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Sydney, NSW
Victorian Society of Fine Arts Exhibition
December 1857
Exhibition ()
Melbourne, Victoria
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