Robert Hunt b. 1830

  • Artist (Photographer)
Robert Hunt was an amateur photographer and clerk. Outdoor stereoscopic views taken in 1855 by Hunt and John Smith are believed to be the first colonial examples of this type of photograph on card.

Citations

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

  • (1972), 'Papers and Correspondence of W.S. Jevons’, Black, R. D. Collison, ed., London, United Kingdom.

  • Burke, I. (1955), 'Australia’s first pictorialist’, Australasian Photo-Review, January.

  • Burke, K. (1956), 'Matthew Fortescue Moresby’, Australasian Photo-Review, October.

  • Groom, B. & Wickman, W. (1982), 'Sydney – The 1850s – The Lost Collections’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1886), 'Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons’, Jevons, H., ed., London, United Kingdom.

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

  • (1949), 'Dictionary of Australian Biography’, Serle, P., ed., Sydney, NSW.

  • (1859), Sydney Magazine of Science and Art , January-February.

  • (1892), Sydney Mail, August, 13, October, 1.

  • (1892), Town and Country Journal, October, 8.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, Candice.

Initial data sources

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