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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Citations

  • Long, C., 'Tasmania – the first photographs ms.’.

  • Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Sprod, D. (1977), 'Victorian and Edwardian Hobart from Old Photographs’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • (1855), Hobart Town Advertiser, 20 July, 24 Aug, 13 Nov.

  • (1858), Hobart Town Advertiser, 4 March, 26 Nov.

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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Related collections
  • Van Diemen's Land Folk Museum, Battery Point, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Sir William Lodewyk Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Van Diemen's Land Folk Museum, Hobart, Tasmania (collected in)
  • Sir William Lodewyk Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)