Portraits of Women
Many of Thomas J. Nevin's clients during the 1860s and 1870s were the friends and families of the mariner community in Hobart, Tasmania.
Elder daughter of master mariner Captain James Day and niece of Captain Edward Goldsmith, Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day (1847-1914) numbered the women of the McGregor, Bayley, Seal, Domeney and Morrison shipping families among her circle of close friends, many of whom were invited to the studio for a photographic portrait by her husband.
At left: Thomas J. Nevin photographed his fiancée Elizabeth Rachel Day ca. 1867; they married in July 1871 at the Wesleyan Chapel, Kangaroo Valley (Tasmania). He took this photograph at his studio, 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart, while operating under the name of NEVIN & SMITH (1867-1868).
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Portraits of women
Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith and the saltmarsh known as Lady's Tippett, 1870
Lost and found: one day in 1866 and the scientific racism which followed
Reproductions of Charles A. Woolley's portrait of Tasmanian Aborigines 1860s-1915
Captain Hector Axup and the French lady of Green Island, 1888
The case against Henry Stock (var. Stocks) 1884 for the murder of his wife and her child
Clients posing with Thomas J. Nevin's big box stereoscopic viewer
Thomas J. Nevin at his finest: Camille Del Sarte and family 1860s-1870s
Elizabeth Allport nee Ritchie at Thomas J. Nevin's studio 1876
Alfred Hope and his landau with Albert Nevin on horseback early 1900s
James McEvoy's fine fabrics ex Captain Goldsmith's "Parrock Hall" Sydney 1845
T. J. Nevin's 1870s mugshots the inspiration for 21st century artworks
Exhibition 2019: T. J. NEVIN's mugshot of prisoner James BLANCHFIELD 1875
Thomas Nevin, Sam Clifford and the Flying Squadron at Hobart, January 1870
Joseph Somes, Captain Edward Goldsmith and the "Angelina" 1844-46
A distinguished forelock: Henry Dresser Atkinson on board the "City of Hobart" 1872
Captain Edward Goldsmith and wife Elizabeth's land deals in VDL
Bleak Expectations: Captain Goldsmith's will in Chancery 1871-1922
Captain Edward Goldsmith and the conundrums of the Ethiopian Serenaders 1851
Treasures passed down from Captain Edward Goldsmith and Captain James Day
One session, two poses at the City Photographic Establishment
Marriage breakdown: Elizabeth Amos v Alfred Threlkeld Mayson 1879-1882
Tom Nevin and father-in-law bandmaster Walter Tennyson Bates
Captain Goldsmith & death at sea of Antarctic circumnavigator Captain John Biscoe 1843
Captain Edward Goldsmith, the diarist Annie Baxter and a burial at sea 1848
Captain & Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith: Rattler's maiden voyage 1846
Captain Goldsmith, the Parrock Hall and playwright David Burn, Sydney 1844
Prisoner Henry SINGLETON aka Harry the Tinker who pinches books
"Lines on the much lamented death of Rebecca Jane Nevin" by John Nevin 1866
Cousins Edward and Elizabeth baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
Thomas Nevin's stereos of sister Mary Ann at New Town rivulet
The early deaths of Thomas Nevin's sisters and niece Rebecca, Mary and Minnie Carr
First- born child May Nevin and her China trade soapstone vase/brush washer