Conrad Wagner b. c.1818

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, scene-painter and professional photographer of German origin. Always more interested in painting than photography, Wagner produced watercolours, pastels and oil paintings as well as painting over enlarged photographs. His speciality was posthumous portraits.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 10896/1910’.

  • AONSW, 'Bankruptcy file 12268’.

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

  • Cato, J. (1977), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia’, Melbourne.

  • McDonald, P.R. & Pearce, B. (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney.

  • (1871), 'Clarence, New England ,Mackeay and Gwydir Almanac’, Grafton n.d. (1870).

  • (1865), Clarence and Richmond Examiner, 10-03.

  • (1875), Grafton Argus, 04-14.

  • (1871), Sydney Mail, 09-16.

  • (1863), Sydney Morning Herald, 06-13.

  • 'Photocopy of undated newspaper references to Conrad Wagner’, Michell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • ML doc 866 (1866), 'Facsimile of letter from H. Pinchin to C. Wagner’, 9 April.

  • (1863), Sydney Morning Herald, 10-02.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions