George Henry Kendall

  • Artist (Photographer)
A professional photographer, Kendall worked in rural Victoria during the 1860s and 1780s and in 1872 published an album of prints and portraits entitled 'Echuca Illustrated'.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
George Henry Kendall
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • c.1866- c.1872 Echuca, Vic.
  • c.1885- c.1889 Shepparton, Vic.
Other Occupation
  • Professional photographer
Active Period
  • c.1866- c.1888
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

professional photographer, worked in Victoria. His studio was in High Street, Echuca, from 1866. In 1872 he published Echuca Illustrated , an album containing a frontispiece portrait, 20 carte-de-visite portraits and 19 larger albumen prints of views of Australia. He was apparently at Shepparton by the late 1880s.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Mary Hindmarsh
1817
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Walter Mason
1820
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
George Gordon McCrae
1833
Artist, Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Georgiana Huntly McCrae
1804
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
James Edward Neild
1824
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Conrad Wagner
1818
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)
Citations:
  • Kendall, George Henry, (1872), Echuca Illustrated
  • Stephens & Bartholomew, (1867), Sandhurst, Castlemaine, Echuca ... Directory
  • (1866), Bailliere's National Directory of Victoria 1866-67
  • Johnson, W.S., (1990), Nineteenth-Century Photography: An Annotated Bibliography 1839-1879, (Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
  • Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter, (1985), The Mechanical Eye in Australia - Photography 1841-1900, (Place: Melbourne, Vic.)