C. Knight

  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
C. Knight was a painter in Hobart in the early 1840s and is assumed to be also the photographer and photographic showman of the same name who advertised a 'lime light' show of photographs at Hobart Town in 1854. This was one of Tasmania's earliest public lantern-slide shows known to have used photographs.

Citations

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

  • Erickson, R. (1983), 'The Brand on his Coat’, Nedlands, WA.

  • Long, C., 'Tasmania – the first photographs’, manuscript.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870