Photographs - Portraits
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# 43407
[Photographer unknown].
Ambrotype portrait of “Jake and Charles. Two old cronies – intimate friends … Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together.” Dated 15 September, 1862.
[USA : unknown photographer], September 1862. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colouring, 53 x 62 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat with a scrolling foliate motif, housed in a half leather case with embossed geometric design; a fully contemporary inscription in pencil to the paper lining the inside wall of the case reads: ‘Taken Sept. …
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![[CRICKET] Studio portraits of Arthur and George O'Mullane, sons of Dr. Arthur O'Mullane. Melbourne, c.1863-64.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3378-300x300.jpg)
# 50375
BATCHELDER & O'NEILL
[CRICKET] Studio portraits of Arthur and George O’Mullane, sons of Dr. Arthur O’Mullane. Melbourne, c.1863-64.
I. Portrait of Arthur Augustus O’Mullane (1841-1865), by Batchelder & O’Neill (41 Collins Street, East, Melbourne). Albumen print, carte de visite format (103 x 63 mm. mount). Fine condition; accompanied by its original album window mount inscribed with the sitter’s name ‘Arthur O’Mullane’. II. Portrait of George Jeremiah Patrick O’Mullane (1842-1866), by Batchelder & O’Neill …
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# 43390
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype of a seated young woman wearing spectacles, c.1855.
[USA : s.n., 1850-55]. Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 68 x 57 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass mat, housed in a leather case with embossed floral design, with a working brass clasp; the daguerreotype has a tarnish halo at left and lower edges, but is otherwise in fine condition; the case has only light wear …
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![[WINE] Studio portrait of John Charles Johnston of Craiglee Vineyard, Sunbury, Victoria, late 1860s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/11/2024_DSFB_6557-300x300.jpg)
# 45812
JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY & CO.
[WINE] Studio portrait of John Charles Johnston of Craiglee Vineyard, Sunbury, Victoria, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); recto inscribed in ink in a fully contemporary hand in the lower margin: ‘J. C. J. … Sunbury’; verso inscribed in the same hand ‘John Charles Johnston’, and with the gilt back mark of ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke Street …
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# 50334
SOLOMON & BARDWELL
Studio portrait of a young woman holding a carte de visite album, her white gloves placed in a wire “glove basket”. Ballarat, Victorian goldfields, c.1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 94 x 64 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Solomon & Bardwell, Photographers, Ballarat’ contemporary inscription in ink: ‘M. Strack’; the print has some mottling in the negative and some very light creasing at left edge.
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# 50314
HART, Elijah
Portrait of Cyrus William Doyle, son of pioneer Hunter Valley pastoralist Edmund Doyle. West Maitland, New South Wales, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Elijah Hart, Photographic Artist, High Street, West Maitland, N.S.W.’, and a full contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Cyrus’; the vignetted portrait has some light marks that are mostly confined to the edges of the print. We believe the sitter to …
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# 47232
FREEMAN BROTHERS
Daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman. Sydney, c.1855.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 58 mm (sight); in a square brass mat with arch-top window; housed in a full leather case with the gilt-stamped crest of the photographers ‘FREEMAN BROTHERS / SYDNEY’ to verso, and with two working brass clasps; the daguerreotype is in excellent condition (a few specks of dust underneath …
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# 40078
FREEMAN & PROUT
Signed portrait photograph of the Rev. George Fairfowl Macarthur, first Rector of St. Mark’s, Darling Point and Headmaster of The King’s School, Parramatta. Sydney, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; signed in ink by the sitter ‘Yrs. faithfully Geo: F: Macarthur’; verso with the imprint of ‘Freeman & Prout, Photographers to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince & Princess of Wales & His Excellency the Governor, Sydney’; Rare portrait photograph – signed – of the …
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# 44821
MAGUIRE, H. J.
Studio portrait of a professional reciter and his prompter. Sydney, c.1885.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 162 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘Maguire / Photographer, 195 George Street, Sydney’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. Although these two gentlemen are unidentified, there can be no doubt as to their professional roles. Public reciting was something of a …
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# 45560
LAMARTINIERE, Alexander Henry
Studio portrait of comedian, singer and theatrical entrepreneur Harry Rickards and his first wife, actress Caroline Hayden. Sydney, c.1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Lamartiniere & Co., late Dalton’s, Photographic Artists. 320 George Street, 6 doors from Hunter St., Sydney’, and wet stamp in purple ink ‘The Rickards Comique Concert Party’; the print has some light mottling in the negative, but is in …
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# 41553
TUTTLE & CO.
Photographic portrait of Australian professional rower William “Bill” Beach, unbeaten as World Sculling Champion 1884-87. Sydney, c.1884.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘Tuttle & Co., Corner of George & Market Sts., Sydney’; verso with advertisement for the New York Tailoring Company, 667 George Street, Haymarket; print with pale foxing, mount a little darkened from handling otherwise very good. William Beach …
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# 45624
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Wedding cake. Sydney, 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 109 mm (mount); recto of mount with the embossed imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in excellent condition; the mount has some minor foxing. A studio “portrait” with an uncommon subject.
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# 46280
BOAKE, Barcroft Capel
Studio portrait of Rev. H. A. Palmer, incumbent of Petersham, taken shortly before his death. Sydney, 1879.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘B. Boake / Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. 353 George Street [wet-stamped over 530 George Street] Sydney’, and fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter: ‘Revd. Mr. Palmer. Sydney, NSW 1879’; both the print and mount are …
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# 14831
NEWMAN, John Hubert
Photographic portrait of Rev. William Curnow, Wesleyan minister and journalist, Sydney, 1865-68
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (107 x 64 mm, mount; 60 x 48 mm, oval image); inscribed beneath image in ink in a contemporary hand ‘Rev. W. Curnow’; recto and verso with imprint of J.H. Newman, 53 South Head Road, Sydney; recto with light staining and rubbing. Wesleyan Methodist clergyman and journalist William Curnow …
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# 43366
[Photographer unknown].
Daguerreotype of a mother and young child, late 1850s.
[UK or Australia : s.n., 1855-59]. Quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 90 x 66 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat, housed in a half case with embossed floral design; the daguerreotype has a slight tarnish halo, and some tiny mould spiders beneath the cover glass, but is otherwise in very good condition – an …
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# 43417
Photographer unknown
Ambrotype of two adolescent sisters, c.1860.
[USA : s.n., c.1860]. Quarter-plate ambrotype with applied colour, 93 x 67 mm (sight), in an elliptical brass mat, housed in a full leather case with embossed floral design, with two working brass claps; the ambrotype is in fine condition, the case is lightly marked.