Works included in this catalogue
Flintoff John Basson Humffray 1859 {1891} SLV [DR]
Flintoff G.A.Thomson {1884} SLV [PA]
Flintoff Sir William John Clarke 1885 {1888} SLV [PA]
Born in Newcastle, England, Flintoff emigrated to Australia via the Californian gold-fields in 1856, and worked in Ballarat until 1872 (his chalk portrait of John Basson Humffray dates from this period).
For the remainder of his life, Flintoff worked as a portrait painter and photographer in Melbourne. A somewhat naive artist, to judge from extant works, he is largely absent from recent histories of 19th-century Australian art.
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For other works by Flintoff, see e.g https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/75823/ (a portrait of J.G.Ware, c.1865; acquired for the NGV in 2004); https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/339.2014/ (an 1860s landscape photograph); and https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/creative-life/an-art-history-of-australia/henry-f-stone-and-his-durham-ox-painting-by-thomas-flintoff/ (an 1887 painting in the Ballarat Art Gallery). See also Kerr Dictionary (1992), pp.265-66: entry by Frank McDonald); AKL 41 (2004), p.254; and Bénézit 5, p.809