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Lawson Insley was a [[Daguerreotype|daguerreotyptist]] that operated in Australia and New Zealand.<ref></ref> He worked in portraiture and captured the earliest known portrait of Māori subjects.<ref></ref> <ref name=":0"></ref>
There is little evidence of where Insley was born or where he lived before he arrived in Sydney in 1850. He set up a daguerreotype studio on George Street in September that year. Throughout the 1850s Insley travelled between Australia and New Zealand setting up various studios and offering his services in portraiture.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> His most significant portrait of Caroline and Sarah Barrett, daughters of Englishman Dicky Barrett and his wife Wakaiwa Rawinia, granddaughter of paramount Te Āti Awa chief Tautara, was taken in New Plymouth in 1853.<ref name=":0" />
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There is little evidence of where Insley was born or where he lived before he arrived in Sydney in 1850. He set up a daguerreotype studio on George Street in September that year. Throughout the 1850s Insley travelled between Australia and New Zealand setting up various studios and offering his services in portraiture.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> His most significant portrait of Caroline and Sarah Barrett, daughters of Englishman Dicky Barrett and his wife Wakaiwa Rawinia, granddaughter of paramount Te Āti Awa chief Tautara, was taken in New Plymouth in 1853.<ref name=":0" />
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