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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Date written:
1992
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2011

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