John Paine b. 1833

  • Artist (Photographer)
John Paine was a well-known commercial photographer who travelled with the Australian Squadron and recorded the establishment of the British Protectorate over South East New Guinea in 1884. His bread and butter, though, was selling picturesque views of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and of the bustling city itself.
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Name
John Paine
Birth date
1833
Death date
c.1908
Death place
St Marys, Sydney, NSW, St Marys, Sydney, NSW?
Death note
Uncertain: NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry, University of Sydney and State Library of NSW records all say 1908; National Library of Australia records say 1915
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • c.1884- c.1901 Waterloo, Sydney, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1884- c.1901
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

photographer.

Featured in exhibition Treasures of Light , Macleay Museum, Sydney University which included work from twenty-one photographic collections owned by the Museum. Paine was a well-known commercial photographer in Sydney in the late 19th Century. He sold views of the city and the Blue Mountains from his studio at 96 Elizabeth Street, Waterloo. He also travelled with the Australian Squadron and recorded the establishment of the British Protectorate over South East New Guinea in 1884. Paine extensively photographed the street decorations for Federation in Sydney in 1901.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
child of
Ann T. Paine
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Thomas Paine
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Coogee Bay
Date
1890
URL
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3775691
None
Courtesy of: Historic Houses Trust
View of Government House, Sydney, from the eastern arm of the entry drive, around 1878
Date
c.1878
None
Courtesy of: Historic Houses Trust
View of Government House, Sydney, from the forecourt, around 1878
Date
c.1878
Collections
Treasures of Light
1998
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Citations:
  • NSW Death Records : 11407/1908
  • (17 April 2001), PICMAN, (Place: Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales)
  • Davies, Louise; and Barker, Geoff, (October 1998), Macleay Museum News, No. 12, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)