Thomas Foster Chuck (19 September 1826 – 7 December 1898) was a British photographer. He was born in London and migrated to Australia, where he documented the explorers and early colonists of Victoria.
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- 1 Personal life
- 2 Photography career
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Personal life
Chuck married Adeline Holt in 1854 and she died in 1867. He married Mary Ambrose in 1869.
He died in Albert Park, Victoria on 7 December 1898.
Photography career
He migrated to Australia. By 1866 he had traditional a studio in Daylesford. Later in Melbourne he occupied various studios before instigation the London Portrait Gallery in the Royal Arcade on Bourke Street. In 1876 he sold the Melbourne studio and moved to Ballarat where he opened the Gallery of Art.
He documented the explorers and to the fore colonists of Victoria such as the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61; and his mammoth The Explorers and Early Colonists of Victoria, a montage of greater than 700 photographs of in front settlers of Victoria, made in the middle of 1870 and 1872. In 1872, he was awarded a concurrence to photograph the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection, resulting in 18 photographs that were published as Photographs of the Pictures in the National Gallery of Melbourne (1875).
In 1874, a store of Chuck’s photographs including portraits of Edward Williams and Redmond Barry, won a gold medal at the Annual International Exhibition in London.
Last update 2021-08-06