Edwin Haviland b. 20 July 1823

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer, botanist and businessman, he ran a photographic business in Sydney, 1857-1859. He specialised in coloured collodiotype portraits which resembled painted miniatures on ivory.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 6137/1908’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : V1852278 38C/1852’.

  • Haviland, Edwin (October 1857), 'Process for a Hot Climate’, London, England, UK : Photographic and Fine Art Journal, October, .

  • Gibbney, H. J. & Smith, A. G. (1987), 'A Biographical Register 1788-1939’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Johnson, W.S. (1990), 'Nineteenth-Century Photography: An Annotated Bibliography 1839-1875’, Boston, Mass., USA.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

Initial data sources

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