John Mathieson Sharp b. 1823

  • Artist (Photographer)
John Mathieson Sharp was a professional photographer as well as a dentist. He had a photographic partnership with Frederick Frith. Many of their photographs were of Tasmanian politicians. By the mid 1860s, though, he appears to have abandoned photography.
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Name
John Mathieson Sharp
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Other Occupation
  • dentist
Birth date
1823
Death date
1899
Active Period
  • c.1855 - c.1865
Residence
  • Hobart Town, Tasmania
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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Related stub people
  • Nixon, F. R. (Bishop) (associate of)
  • Dowling, W. P. (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • Sharp & Co.'s Chromatype Gallery (associate of)
Related people
  • Dickenson, Walter (associate of)
  • Frith, Frederick (associate of)
  • Woodbury, Walter Bentley (associate of)
  • Abbott, Alfred (associate of)
  • Bock, Alfred (associate of)
  • Hull, Hugh Munro (associate of)
  • Abbott, Charles (associate of)
Related works
  • Tablet to Dr Smith on Mount Wellington (creator of)
  • Ball-Room Government House (creator of)
  • Hobart Town from Rosney Point (creator of)
  • On the Derwent, New Norfolk (creator of)
  • Merry Musician (creator of)
Related collections
  • Van Diemen's Land Folk Museum, Hobart, Tasmania (collected in)
  • Sir William Lodewyk Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra (collected in)