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Douglas Kilburn, a watercolorist and photographer,
emigrated to Australia before 1847. After having ar-
ranged for William to send equipment and materials
from England, he was the fi rst to make daguerreotypes
of Aboriginal people of the Yarra Yarra tribe in Victoria
in 1847 which were used as basis of illustrations in Wil-
liam Westgarth’s Australia Felix ( Edinburgh 1848). He
operated a daguerreotype studio in Collins Lane, Mel-
bourne, from May 1848—only the second professional
photographic establishment in the city.
He returned briefl y to Britain in 1850 where he was
married, before returning to Australia and settling in
Hobart, Tasmania—where he was the fi rst to demon-
strate stereoscopic photography in 1853. He eventually
turned his attention to politics and became an MP in the
Tasmanian parliament.
John Hannavy
KIMBEI, KUSAKABE; See KUSAKABE
KIMBEI
KINDER, JOHN (1818–1903)
English artist and photographer
The Rev. John Kinder (1818–1903) was ordained in the
Anglican Church after attending Cambridge University.
He came to Auckland, in 1855 where he took up a teach-
ing post at the Church of England Grammar School. In
the tradition of well educated English gentlemen, he
made several sketching tours in the North Island during
term breaks. Around 1860, after taking lessons in pho-
tography from an Auckland professional photography
Hartley Webster, he completed a series of stereoscopic
views which of Auckland. As he grew in confi dence as
a photographer, he took to using a large format view
camera which yielded a series of topographical views.
About this time, his photography became something of
an aide memoir for his watercolours. He was a brilliant
draftsman and was well aware of all the effects that could
be obtained by perceptive selection of subject and ren-
dering. His intense commitment to photography ended
in 1872 as other matters demanded his attention. Kinder
obviously considered photography as being on an equal
footing with his watercolours, exhibiting them as he did
along with his watercolours at exhibitions staged by the
Auckland Arts Society.
William Main
KING, HENRY (1855–1923)
Austrailian photographer
Henry King was born in 1855 in Swanage, Dorset, the
son of William and Eliza King. He arrived in Sydney,
Australia as a toddler aboard the Kate in 1856. He
started in photography in 1873 working for the studio
of J. Hubert Newman. King opened a studio at 330
George St., Sydney, in partnership with William Joseph
Slade in 1879. They moved to 316 George St the fol-
lowing year then Slade left to set up in Newcastle. King
worked by himself thereafter initially producing carte
de visite portraits, but with time he began to specialise
in landscapes, rivalling the work of Charles Kerry.
King travelled extensively in New South Wales and
Queensland to photograph landscapes and to document
the Aboriginal population. In addition to enlargements,
King produced many lantern slides and stereoviews
including series featuring the Jenolan Caves and views
around Sydney and environs. King was active in the
NSW Photographic Society and always encouraged
amateurs. He worked from a variety of George St ad-
dresses until 1920 and died following an operation 23
May 1923. In 1929 bookseller James Tyrrell acquired
several thousand of King’s glass plate negatives that are
now in the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Marcel Safier
Holdings: State Library of New South Wales,
Sydney; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Macleay
Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney; State Library
of Victoria, Melbourne; National Library of Australia,
Canberra.KING, HORATIO NELSON (1828–1905)
English photographer
The career of H. N. King spans the fi rst sixty years of
photographic history and also encompasses a wide range
of formats and subjects. Starting in Bath in the 1850s
he ingeniously combined the roles of local theatrical
impresario with taking portraits of celebrities visiting
this fashionable resort.
Moving to London he inherited more than 1000
negatives taken by the photographer Vernon Heath
and by the late 1870s he had transferred his scope and
operations to the Goldhawk Road in West London be-
coming an important topographical and architectural
specialist competing with Francis Frith, James Valen-
tine, and George Washington Wilson. This business was
underpinned by his longstanding connections with the
Royal family: in his reminiscences he mentions visiting
Windsor Castle over 250 times to create what must be
one of the most extensive records of royal residence
including Buckingham Palace, St. James’ Palace and
other properties.
King claimed to have been the fi rst to introduce pho-
tographs in railway carriages having been granted two
fi rst class tickets for six months by the Great Western
Railway. This must link with his catalogue of over 7000