[20] Soon after, his advertisements described him as a "photographist" rather than a "Daguerrean Artist", the Daguerreotype process having been rendered largely obsolete by the collodiotype, ambrotype and albumen print.
[21] The partnership with Sanford was dissolved 1863 He introduced the Sennotype process, for producing superior tinted photographs, to South Australia.
[24] Townsend Duryea was appointed official photographer for the 1867 visit of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, to Adelaide in 1867.
[30] Such was the rate of progress in photography in those days that photographs taken by Duryea in 1871, when shown at The Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1879, were criticised for their quality and small size, especially as compared with those of Queensland.
The gas main tap had not been turned off, which may have exacerbated the situation, and the storeroom contained flammable chemicals and papers, but the inquest conducted by J. M. Solomon JP could not determine the initial cause.
Photographs salvaged from the fire were made available to the public by Duryea at the Adelaide School of Photography, 51 Rundle Street, in June 1875.
[38] Manning bought "Duryea's Studio" 1 April 1878 from Nixon In the 1890s he began offering enlargements, the use of bromide paper, and use of the "American airbrush" for touching up and colouring.
[41] Using the experience of boatbuilding he had acquired in America, he built the 30 foot centre-board cutter Coquette, intended for trade on the River Murray and Lake Albert, on Magill Road behind the Maid and Magpie Hotel.
[47] Townsend's original training was as a mining engineer, and formed a company Duryea and Co. which bought several claims at Wallaroo, section 471 being proved highly prospective, having near the surface a seam of some of the richest ore ever found.
[48] and a prospectus released by directors Duryea, Edward John Peake SM and George Dehane in April 1861, offering shares to the public.
He later moved to Parkside, Glen Emu, near Balranald, where he suffered a stroke then died on 13 December 1888, after falling from a buggy in which he was riding with his daughter.
Martha Mary Hübbe (1 August 1848 – 27 January 1881), properly Anglicised as "Huebbe" but often "Hubbe", was an artist born in Macclesfield, South Australia who worked in Duryea's studio as a photo-colourist.
John Hood (c. 1839 – 15 May 1924) from Reading, Berkshire or Camberwell worked for Duryea from 1863 to 1869 [70] or perhaps to 1872[71] He married Martha Mary Hubbe on 18 September 1871.
[72] He was appointed drawing master at Glenelg Grammar School from 1873 to 1875 as replacement for Wilton Hack, who had left for Japan.
He joined Duryea in Adelaide in 1866, later had his own studio in King William Street, specialising in child portraits.
A notable production was the pair of group photographs of old colonists which in 1910 they were purchased by T. R. Bowman and donated to the Public Library.
[74] See main article Henry Fenton Spread[75] (1844–1890) was an Irish painter who worked with the Duryea studio from 1866, using photographs on specially prepared canvas as the basis of his painted portraits.
[78] Knud Geelmuyden Bull (10 September 1811 – 22 December 1889) was a painter born in Bergen, Norway, trained at the University of Copenhagen and at Dresden under Professor Johan Christian Dahl.
[79] He commenced working for Duryea in 1874 on a one-year contract[80] with his virtues lauded in both newspapers (though mistakenly as "R. Bull" in the Register) throughout this time.
[35] Moved to Marryatville and worked for Nixon (managing "Duryea's Studio")[84] in 1878 and produced a notable photograph of J. Howard Clark.
[91] In 1871 he was declared bankrupt but in 1874 he produced a series of critically acclaimed photographs depicting mining at Kadina and Wallaroo.
Nixon moved to Wauraltee, some 6 km south-east of Port Victoria, South Australia, where he declared himself bankrupt in 1880.
[94] Around 1893 he moved to Fremantle,[95] perhaps to be near to his son Charles, who was working as a photographer in the vicinity, then Wagin, Western Australia, where he died.
He began working as a colorist in watercolours with Duryea's successor in Bourke Street, Dr. Thomas A. Hill,[13] being introduced to the technique by Montague Scott, then joined the Adelaide Photographic Company some time before 1867, perhaps as early as 1865.
His work attracted the attention of Robert Barr Smith, who sponsored his studies at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from around 1877 to 1880, where he met with considerable success.
[110] These facts disprove the assertion in one edition of Alan McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art that Upton died in Adelaide in 1882.