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Blood, Matthew Henry Smyth, b. 1808
Kapunda, South Australia's first resident general practitioner, Blood was also a keen amateur photographer who was said to submit most of his friends to the ...
Nixon, William Millington, b. 1814
William Nixon emigrated from Birmingham to South Australia in 1855. A gunsmith by trade, Nixon switched to a career in photography following his experience in ...
Thwaites, Walter William, b. 1814
A miniature painter and engraver, W.W. Thwaites (1814-1888)and sons established themselves as professional photographers in West and South Australia in the 1860s. However, despite such ...
Babbage, Benjamin Herschel, b. 1815
Sketcher who trained as an engineer. Babbage was also an amateur photographer, architect, scientist and explorer. His pen-and-ink expedition sketches were shown in Adelaide at ...
Shaw, James, b. 1815
James Shaw was born in 1815. He was a painter, photographer, engraver, lithographer, surveyor and lawyer. Shaw's two works 'Flood at Kent Town' and 'Sticking ...
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Gill, Samuel, b. 1818
Colonial era watercolourist, lithographer and presumably photographer who documented exploration and the Gold Rush in Australia.
Hall, Robert, b. 1821
Professional photographer, naturalist, ornithologist and publican, known as 'Professor' Hall he was one of Adelaide's leading photographers in the mid 1800s. He ran his own ...
Blandowski, Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig, b. 1822
William Blandowski lived in Australia for almost a decade and in that time he explored tracts of Central Victoria and helped found the Geological Society ...
Adamson, David Beveridge, b. 1823
David Beveridge Adamson emigrated to South Australia in 1839. He designed and produced toys, mechanical appliances and scientific instruments, the latter of which he used ...
Sweet, Samuel White, b. 1825
Colonial photographer and master mariner, awarded a silver medal for his photographs at the Calcutta International Exhibition in 1885. His photographic career included some unusual ...
Jones, Henry, b. 1826
Nineteenth-century professional photographer, watchmaker and jeweller, he worked in Melbourne and Adelaide, producing pannotypes (photographs on leather to send through the post) and full-length carte-de-visite ...
Fawcett, , b. 1828
Probably Robert Fawcett, worked as a professional photographer in South Australia during the 1860s.
Adamson, James Hazell, b. 1829
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
Crawford, Frazer Smith, b. 1829
Professional photographer and photo-lithographer born in Scotland. A resident of Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, Crawford was possibly the first photographer in Australia to provide original ...
Batchelor, William Henry, b. 1830
Arriving from England in 1854 with his wife, William Henry Batchelor disembarked at Adelaide and promptly went inland to Burra Burra where he lived the ...
Burnell, George, b. 1831
Mid-nineteenth-century photographer noted for a series of views of the Murray River.
Farndell, Francis, b. 1831
Francis Farndell was a professional photographer and storekeeper. He was older brother of Edward Farndell, also a photographer. The two are not known to have ...
Stone, James Doveton, b. 1831
Landscape painter who resided in Melbourne and Adelaide from the late 1850s to the late 1880s. Stone exhibited on many occasions with the South Australian ...
Finch, Joshua, b. 1834
Joshua Finch emigrated from England to Australia in 1849 on the 'John Henderson'. Based at Gawler, north of Adelaide, he was a professional photographer listed ...
Norman, Harriet Anne, b. 1834
A photographer who worked in her father's photographic studio and watch and jewellery shops in Portland (1854) & Hamilton (1858-1867) in Victoria, and Commercial Street ...