Category Archives: Thomas Nevin’s Family Portraits

Cousins Edward and Elizabeth baptised at St Mary’s Rotherhithe

Posted on May 17, 2013 by TP Publishers

First Cousins and both chidren of master mariners, Edward Goldsmith (1836-1883) and Elizabeth Rachel Day (1847-1914 ) were born in London and baptised at St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe, known as the Mayflower Church, one decade apart. Elizabeth Rachel Day arrived in Hobart Tasmania as an infant, where her sister Mary Sophia was born in 1853, and married professional photographer Thomas J. Nevin at Kangaroo Valley, Hobart on 12 July 1871. Edward Goldsmith made several voyages to Tasmania with his father Captain Edward Goldsmith, attended the Governor’s Levee there in 1855, went to Trinity College Cambridge in 1857, married, became a surgeon, managed his father’s estates in Kent and died young at Rochester, UK, just 43 yrs old Continue reading →

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Tom and May Nevin at the Union Chapel flower show 1892

Posted on April 24, 2013 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 63 photos.

THE UNION CHAPEL
Samuel Clifford and partner Thomas Nevin produced this photograph as a stereograph of the Congregational Union Chapel in Bathurst Street Hobart not long after it was built by the Rev. J. W. Simmons in 1863. It was also known as “The Helping Hand Mission” . In 1892 the Congregational Union held a flower show at the Chapel to raise much needed funds for repairs to the building. Tom and May Nevin – the two eldest of Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin’s six children – entered chrysanthemums and flower arrangements as a contribution. Continue reading →

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One of the last portraits by Alfred Bock in Hobart 1865

Posted on April 19, 2013 by TP Publishers

Girl with bare shoulders by Alfred Bock 1865

This gallery contains 12 photos.

This photograph of a teenage girl with bare shoulders and ringlets may be one of the very last taken by Alfred Bock in Hobart Tasmania before his departure in 1865. The design of the studio stamp on the verso was altered only minimally by his younger partner Thomas J. Nevin who bought the lease of the studio, shop, the glass house and darkroom, the stock of negatives, camera equipment, backdrops and furniture etc at auction on August 2, 1865. Thomas Nevin continued to use the stamp’s design for his commercial studio portraiture for another decade, although he used at least six other designs for various formats and clients, including the Royal Arms insignia for commissions with the Colonial government. Continue reading →

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John Nevin snr Service Record in the First or Royal Regiment 1825-1841

Posted on January 2, 2013 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 30 photos.

John Nevin, father of Tasmanian photographer Thomas J. Nevin, was born in 1808 at Grey Abbey, County Down, a small town east of Belfast on the coast of Ireland. At that period the region was the centre of Irish cotton … Continue reading →

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John Nevin snr and the Genge family

Posted on October 19, 2012 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 22 photos.

WESLEYAN CHAPEL KANGAROO VALLEY John Nevin (1808-1887), Wesleyan, poet, teacher, journalist and Royal Scots veteran of the Canadian Rebellions 1837-38, arrived in Tasmania with his wife Mary and four children in 1852, and settled on land adjacent to the Franklin … Continue reading →

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Posing with a stereoscopic viewer

Posted on June 9, 2012 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 12 photos.

Clients of early photographers were not the only ones to pose with the photographer’s own stereoscope(s). Two extant cartes-de-visite self-portraits by Thomas J. Nevin from The Nevin Family Collections captured his treasured stereoscopes, one with him holding a small viewer, … Continue reading →

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Thomas Nevin’s stereo of sister Mary Ann at New Town rivulet

Posted on June 8, 2012 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 8 photos.

Mary Ann Nevin (1844-1878), sister of Thomas J. Nevin, dipping a glass at New Town rivulet, Kangaroo Valley Hobart Tasmania, ca. 1870
Salt paper stereograph taken by Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1870.Photo © KLW NFC Imprint & The Nevin Family Collections 2012 Continue reading →

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A highly coloured portrait

Posted on June 1, 2012 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 9 photos.

Unidentified woman, seated with sewing A highly colored carte-de-visite ca. 1872 Taken by T.Nevin late A.Bock, 140 Elizabeth St., Hobart Town Held at the Archives Office of Tasmania TAHO Ref: PH31/439 Photo © KLW NFC Imprint 2012 ARR This carte-de-visite … Continue reading →

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The Odd Fellows’ Hall photograph 1871

Posted on June 26, 2011 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 6 photos.

THE ODD FELLOWS’ HALL – A very fine photograph of the Odd Fellows’ Hall (corner of Davey and Harrington-streets) has been taken for the Society by Mr. Nevin, of Elizabeth-street. The view is taken from Davey-street, opposite the corner of the Freemasons’ Hotel, and thus shows the entrance to the rooms, with the whole front and side of the buildings. A well-known member of the institution, and a less known youth, have come within the range of the camera, and their presence greatly assists in conveying an idea of the dimensions of the hall. The picture is undoubtedly creditable to the artist. Continue reading →

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The Photographer’s Wife

Posted on August 3, 2010 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 11 photos.

“Look for a long time at what pleases you and longer still at what pains you.”
Colette

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Husbands and Wives NPG Exhibition 2010

Posted on May 12, 2010 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 9 photos.

An exhibition of early colonial portraits titled HUSBANDS and WIVES has recently opened at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Australia. Apart from the usual collection of cartes-de-visite, there are several daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of individuals, couples and family groups on display, including the coloured ambrotype by Thomas Glaister, ca. 1858 (below, from the NPG online). Continue reading →

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The Nevin farm burglariously entered 1881

Posted on February 18, 2010 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 7 photos.

During the night of the 16th instant the dwelling of John Nevin, Kangaroo Valley, was burglariously entered, and the following articles stolen there-from: – 2 white shirts, one much worn; 2 Scotch twill shirts, one has a patch of different material across the shoulder, the other broken at the elbow; 1 old flannel shirt, stained in front; 1 white pillow-slip; 2 jars of raspberry jam; 2 lbs. soap; 2 lbs. bacon; the property of and shirts identifiable by John Nevin. Continue reading →

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Constable W.J. Nevin at inquest 1882

Posted on February 10, 2010 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 25 photos.

Jack Nevin was his elder brother’s assistant at the Hobart Gaol, Campbell Street during Thomas’ commissions as police photographer in prisons and police courts. He helped maintain one of their photographic studios in New Town, assisting in the production of stereographs and studio portraits on cartes-de-visite intermittently from the 1860s. He was employed at the Hobart Gaol under the supervision of the keeper Ringrose Atkins from 1874, and became a Constable on salary at the male prison at Cascades and H.M. Prison, Hobart in 1875, serving until his untimely death at age 39 in 1891. Continue reading →

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John Nevin: “My Cottage in the Wilderness” 1868

Posted on September 1, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 5 photos.

The poem “My Cottage in the Wilderness” by John Nevin, 1868, father of Thomas J. Nevin, viewed here for the first time in four generations by a great great grand daughter, is held at the State Library of NSW, in … Continue reading →

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John Nevin and Gould’s white goshawk

Posted on August 31, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 8 photos.

WHITE HAWK.- We were yesterday shown a fine specimen of this bird wounded in Kangaroo Valley by Mr. Nevin. The bird is the common White Hawk (Leucospiza Novae Hollandiae) of this colony and Australia, and is well figured in Gould’s large work on Australian Birds under the name of Astur Novae Hollandiae. Gould was formerly of opinion that the White Hawk was merely an albino variety of the New Holland Goshawk, but in his more recent work the “Handbook of Birds of Australia,” he has placed it under the genus Leucospiza. This hawk is by no means rare. Continue reading →

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The early deaths of Thomas Nevin’s sisters Rebecca and Mary

Posted on August 27, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 12 photos.

In early 1977, Special Collections Librarian at the State Library of Tasmania, G.T. Stilwell, established from archival records (AOT MB 2/98) that parents John and Mary Nevin had arrived in Hobart in 1852 with four children: Thomas, Mary Ann, Rebecca, and William John (Jack). He forwarded this information in a letter to the QVMAG where curator John McPhee was preparing an exhibitions of Thomas Nevin’s photographs of convicts taken in the 1870s… Continue reading →

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Jack Nevin, the other photographer in Thomas Nevin’s family

Posted on May 18, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 2 photos.

Younger brother Jack Nevin … William John Nevin (1852-1891) was known to the family as Jack. He was less than six months old when he arrived in Hobart, Tasmania with his parents and siblings Thomas and Mary Anne on board … Continue reading →

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Fourth son George Ernest Nevin

Posted on March 13, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 6 photos.

George Ernest Nevin (1880-1957) was born at the Hobart Town Hall during his father Thomas Nevin’s occupancy as Office and Hall Keeper, and photographer with the Municipal Police Office. Thanks to George’s prescience in keeping photographs taken by his father … Continue reading →

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Thomas Nevin self portraits 1850s-1880

Posted on March 12, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 6 photos.

There are not many extant self portraits of Tasmanian colonial photographers of the 1850s-1880. The watercolour attributed to Alfred Bock of a young gentleman is held at the State Library of Tasmania; the photographs are held in descendants’ private collections. … Continue reading →

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The firm of Nevin & Smith

Posted on February 14, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 17 photos.

Thomas Nevin set up the firm Nevin & Smith ca. 1865 at the City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth Street, Hobart Town, in partnership with Robert Smith. However, by February 1868, the partnership was dissolved. Continue reading →