Denis Downey b. 1842

  • Artist (Photographer)
A photographer based in Carlton, Victoria. He died of arsenic poisoning, just one of the hazardous chemicals used in photography at the time.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Denis Downey
Birth date
c.1842
Death date
20 March 1870
Death place
None
Burial place
Roman Catholic General Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • c.1970- c.1870 Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria
Active Period
  • c.1870
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

professional photographer, was a resident of Carlton, Victoria. The Roman Catholic register of the Melbourne General Cemetery records that Downey, a photographer, died from arsenical colic, aged twenty-seven, and was buried on 20 March 1870. Arsenic was just one of the hazardous chemicals then used in photography.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
H. Walter Barnett
1862
Artist (Photographer)
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