Benjamin Saunders

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Benjamin Saunders was an oil painter and professional photographer, who showed his paintings in several exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney in the late 1800s.
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painter and professional photographer, showed an oil painting, Fruit and Game , at the 1857 exhibition of the Victorian Society of Fine Arts, giving his address as Emerald Hill (South Melbourne). He was listed as a photographer at 11 Thompson Street, Williamstown in the Melbourne Directory for 1861 but seems to have also retained his Emerald Hill premises from which he sent four paintings (all copies from European originals) to the 1873 New South Wales Agricultural Society Exhibition, Sydney.

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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  • Victorian Society of Fine Arts (associate of)
  • New South Wales Agricultural Society (associate of)
  • Victorian Society of Fine Arts (associate of)