Studio portrait of three young brothers in matching suits. Ballarat, c.1865.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm; verso with the pictorial back mark of ‘Flintoff, Photographer and Portrait Painter. Sturt Street, opposite the Star Office, Ballarat’; both the albumen print and mount are in fine condition.

A lovely composition by Thomas Flintoff, an English artist who arrived on the goldfields in 1856 after working in both Mexico and Tahiti. His first advertisement as a photographer in Ballarat – an eye-catching acrostic as much about painting as photography – appeared in The Star on 20 August 1860.