Barcroft Capel Boake b. 12 November 1838

  • Artist (Photographer)
Barcroft Capel Boake was one of the most well-known and successful professional photographers of the second half of the 19th century but beset by economic difficulties and a series of personal tragedies, Boake spent the last three decades of his life in relative obscurity.

Citations

  • Ennis, Helen (2000), 'Mirror with a Memory’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT.

  • Hadgraft, C., 'Barcroft Boake’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3.

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

  • Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Stephens, A. (1897), 'Memoir’, B.H. Boake, Where the Dead Men Lie, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1884), Argus, 02-27.

  • (1871), Bathurst Times, 03-29.

  • (1921), Sydney, NSW: Bulletin, 02-24.

  • (1884), Newcastle Herald, May.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, Anita.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • 'Notes on B.C. Boake’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1869), Sydney Mechanics School of Arts catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions