John Watson

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer, operated photographic studios in Brisbane and Sydney. In 1874, he published 'Watson's Queensland Album of Photographic Scenery'.
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professional photographer, operated a photographic studio during the second half of 1855 in Edward Street, Brisbane, as a branch of Thomas Glaister 's Sydney firm. After disappearing from Queensland early the following year, he must have been the Watson in partnership with James Walker at Sydney in 1860-62. In 1862 John Watson returned to Brisbane, there to run a busy Queen Street studio in his own name until 1875. Watson’s Queensland Album of Photographic Scenery (John Oxley Library) was published in 1874.

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Fisher, Rod
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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