Mr Peyman

  • Artist (Photographer)
Mr Peyman was a professional photographer who worked in Victoria in the 1860s. He was variously in partnerships with Taggett and Barcroft Capel Boake.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Mr Peyman
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • c.1860- c.1862 Melbourne, Vic.
  • c.1859- c.1860 Portland, Vic.
Other Occupation
  • professional photographer
Active Period
  • c.1859- c.1862
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

professional photographer, was in partnership with Taggett at Portland, Victoria, in 1859-60, their firm’s photographs being championed by the Portland Chronicle when John Richardson 's painted portrait photographs were praised in the rival Portland Guardian (edited by Richardson’s brother). Later in the year Peyman moved to Melbourne and was in partnership with Barcroft Capel Boake at 35 Bourke Street East in 1860-62.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Barcroft Capel Boake
1838
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
John Richardson
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
John Richardson
1818
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Taggett
Artist (Photographer)
Citations:
  • Davies, Alan / Stanbury, Peter, (1985), The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900, (Place: Melbourne, Vic.)