C. Bayliss Photo, Sydney

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Agent TypeOrganisationIdentifierUMA-AG-000000304Activities & OccupationsPhotographerGenderMaleSearch records of this agent

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[2002.0003.00866] Photograph Album - Elliott Brothers Ltd.

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DateBetween 1st January 1876 and 31st December 1897Date ContextCharles Bayliss was born in 1850. In 1876, Bayliss opened his first studio in Sydney where, at various addresses in George Street, he maintained premises until the end of his career, 20 years later.

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TitleCharlesFamily NameBayliss

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Bayliss arrived in Melbourne with his family from England in 1854. An opportune meeting with the photographer Beaufoy Merlin who came to the Bayliss’s house selling his photographs resulted in Bayliss becoming his apprentice.

His images registered—indeed celebrated—the impact of modernisation on the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. Like those of his contemporaries, Bayliss’s photographic views of Australian scenery, civic buildings, gardens, engineering feats and so on were acquired eagerly by a newly prosperous clientele.

Bayliss photographed the transformation of Sydney over more than two decades. Although he advertised himself as a landscape photographer, his specialisation included the built environment. His subjects were the major city buildings, civic projects and engineering feats of the colonial period.

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