Nicholas Caire

Around this time Caire Found a mentor in Townsend Duryea. In 1867 he opened his own studio in Adelaide, Australia. He was married to Louisa Master in 1870 and then shortly after moved to Talbot, Victoria where he continued his photography and started to write for Life and Health Magazine. Caire died in 1918 in Armadale, Victoria.

• Name — Nicholas Caire • Birth Name — Nicholas John Caire • Born — 28 February 1837 • Birthplace — Guernsey, Channel Islands • Died — 13 February 1918 • Place of death — Armadale, Victoria, • Spouse — Louisa Master • Occupation — Photographer

• Illustration — gelatin silver photograph, used in Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition, Nicolas Caire. Caire currently still has 5 artworks on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. With a previous exhibition being held at the same place consisting of 32 artworks on display, the exhibition was titled Nicholas Caire. At his Calcutta Exhibition Caire was awarded a prize for his images of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. List of exhibitions • Nicholas John Caire: photographer 1837–1918, at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 1 November 1980 – 14 December 1980. • Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, at Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria, 1888–1889. • Calcutta International Exhibition, at Calcutta, India, 1883–1884 • Melbourne International Exhibition, at Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1880–1881. • Sydney International Exhibition, at Garden Palace, Sydney, 1879–1880

Caire died on 13 February 1918. he was living in Armadale, Victoria, Australia at the time. He left behind many albums of his landscape work. A few of his negatives have been kept, unfortunately, most of his glass plates were cleaned off, to be used as glass for framing his pictures that he sold, because of the shortages in supplies during the First World War, framing was a major part of his business. This included many of his ones used in his major folio Gippsland Scenery, which is his best known work. He was survived by his wife, Louisa Master, his two sons and his four daughters, to one of whom he left his two cameras.