Thomas Foster Chuck

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.

Later in Melbourne he occupied various studios before opening 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.

[2] In 1874, a collection of Chuck's photographs including portraits of Edward Williams and Redmond Barry, won a gold medal at the Annual International Exhibition in London.