Green, Arthur, 1832-1873 (photographer)
Dates
- Existence: 1832 - 1873
Biography
Arthur Green was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1832. He moved to the Cape in the late 1840s. In 1853 he was employed as a clerk in the Office of Orange River Sovereignty at Bloemfontein. He moved to Grahamstown in 1854. He toured Kaffraria as a photographer in the mid-1850s and had a studio in Grahamstown in 1857. He disposed of this studio in 1861. In the same year he took over Frederick York's Cape Town studio, but the studio closed due to financial problems in 1862. Green opened portrait rooms in Longmarket Street, Cape Town, in November 1862. However, he became insolvent and his equipment was sold in 1864. Thereafter, until he left the Cape in 1866, he worked as a photographic assistant. He went to New York, again working as a photographic assistant. In 1873, still in New York, he died of consumption (Bull and Denfield 1970, pp.193-194).
Sources:
Bull, Marjorie and Joseph Denfield (1970) 'Secure the shadow : the story of Cape photography from its beginnings to the end of 1870 '. Cape Town: T. McNally.
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Commanding Officers of the Cape Town Volunteers, 1861
Graham’s Town, from the West, 1860
195 x 135 mm.
His Excellency P.E. Wodehouse, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope , 1862
A seated, three-quarter length studio portrait of Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse (1811-1887), Governor of the Cape 1852-1870. Wodehouse's career started as a writer in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] in 1828 where he served until 1850. During 1851-1854 he was Superintendent in British Honduras and Governor of British Guiana during 1854-1861. After leaving the Cape he was Governor of Bombay 1872-1877.
Kafir Chiefs on Robben Island [historic title], 1862
Showing a group of Africans standing in front of a circular hut.
The Cape Post Cart waiting at the General Post Office, Cape Town, 1862
Showing the post cart in the road outside the Post Office, with an unidentified group, presumably post office employees, standing behind.
The Interior of the Public Library - Cape Town, 1861
A view looking along the porticoed reading of the Public Library, with readers sitting at tables, staff beyond and a portrait of Queen Victoria hanging on the far wall. The library was opened by Prince Alfred on September 18 1860.
The New Somerset Hospital, 1861
A general view of the newly completed Somerset Hospital at Green Point, with part of Table Mountain visible in the background.
The Royal Observatory - Cape of Good Hope, 1861
'A Green, phot. The Royal Observatory - Cape of Good Hope. Presented to the Subscribers of the Cape Monthly Magazine - August 1861'. A view looking across the Salt River Marsh to the Observatory.
The Sanatarium at Wynberg, 1861
A view showing the cluster of single storey wooden buildings of the Sanatorium at Wynberg, probably only recently constructed when this picture was taken.
The Town House, Cape Town, 1861
A view looking across Greenmarket Square towards the Old Town House, with Burg Street at the right and Longmarket Street running off to the left.
Additional filters:
- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Royal Commonwealth Soc. (GBR/0115) 7
- Subject
- Western Cape, Province of the (province) 9
- Cape Town (inhabited place) 7
- Grahamstown (inhabited place) 1
- Robbeneiland (island) 1
- Wynberg (inhabited place) 1