John Rae b. 1813

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
"I am anxious to make some of you amateurs like myself" was Rae's plea to students at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts in 1855. He was referring to his experiments in photography, yet the word amateur hardly applies. Anything he turned his hand to he seemed to master and his interests encompassed both the business and cultural worlds. In his artmaking he was most concerned with "fidelity to nat

Citations

  • Phillips, N. (1976), 'John Rae’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, [Nairn, B. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Moore, W. (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, NSW (facsimile reprint, 1980), 2 volumes.

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

  • (1888), 'Mr Rae’s Sketches of Colonial Scenes in the Olden Time’, New South Wales Commission for the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, Sydney, NSW.

  • Rae, J. (1893), 'Photographs of Views of Sydney in 1842’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Jones, Shar.

  • (1997), 'Collectors’ List 62A’, Paddington, NSW : Josef Lebovic Gallery.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions