La Mert was a professional photographer. He claimed to have been a pupil of 'Dr. Diamond, Photographer to the Royal Family and Editor of the Photographic Journal'.
professional photographer, was in Sydney by January 1861, at which time he claimed to have been a pupil of 'Dr. Diamond, Photographer to the Royal Family and Editor of the Photographic Journal’. La Mert gave his address as 309 George Street, over Fotheringham & Mullen’s Auction Rooms. In March 1862 he was advertising that in order to meet increased demand he would in future take four likenesses for 10s 6d or ten for a guinea. In June he stated that he was about to resume business at the same address, having just recovered from a severe accident. He was listed in a Sydney directory for 1863, but by 1865 he was in partnership with Daniel Louis Mundy at Christchurch, New Zealand.
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