George Walker

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and professional photographer, exhibited artworks, mainly copies, at the Melbourne Exhibition, 1854 and Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Although listed in the Melbourne Directory as a photographer as well as painter, no photographs are known.
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painter and professional photographer, worked as a painter in Melbourne from 1854, showing several watercolours at that year’s Melbourne Exhibition as an artist of 19 Russell Street. These were mainly copies ( Rembrandt’s Daughter, after Rembrandt , The Market Cart, after Gainsborough ) or English views (six sketches), one being an Australian copy— Scene on the River Goulburn, Victoria from a sketch by J.T. Stewart (see Stewart ). Between 1860 and 1869 Walker was listed in the Melbourne Directory as a photographer as well as painter of Queensberry Street West, Hotham. At the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition he showed oil paintings and a Study—after Rembrandt (medium unspecified), while his View on the Upper Goulburn (presumably his 1854 exhibit) was lent by J. Hingston. No photographs are known and he may have been largely a photographic colourist.

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