After migrating to Australia, Barcroft Capel Boake spent majority of his working life in Sydney.
He had a hugely successful business.
Owning and running his own studio on George St, where he explored the streets and buildings of Sydney through his wet plate work.
These outdoor prints would be sold as whole albums.
His most successful works are of his male subjects.
However his images of women and children were collected in albums, as the small delicately coloured prints are considered the best of that period and time of portrait photography.
The highly persevered state of his prints suggest that people of the time went to Boake for charming miniatures.

He volunteered as a captain in the 7th Battery of New South Wales Voluntary Artillery.
Here Boake made his most famous work, the mosaic of the returning New South Wales contingent that fought in the Sudan campaign of 1890.

Capel practiced in many different photographic printing and developing techniques.
The heliograph and the instantaneous process were ways Boake was able to maintain the fine art quality of his execution.
The competitors from other local studios moved to larger prints, while Boake maintained his artistic reputation, working on finer photographs.

Barcroft was also often seen using, a carte de visite, which is 10 x 6.4 cm stiff card, with a paper photograph attached, invented in 1854 by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disderi.
After migrating to Australia, Barcroft Capel Boake spent majority of his working life in Sydney. He had a hugely successful business. Owning and running his own studio on George St, where he explored the streets and buildings of Sydney through his wet plate work. These outdoor prints would be sold as whole albums. His most successful works are of his male subjects. However his images of women and children were collected in albums, as the small delicately coloured prints are considered the best of that period and time of portrait photography. The highly persevered state of his prints suggest that people of the time went to Boake for charming miniatures.
He volunteered as a captain in the 7th Battery of New South Wales Voluntary Artillery. Here Boake made his most famous work, the mosaic of the returning New South Wales contingent that fought in the Sudan campaign of 1890.
Capel practiced in many different photographic printing and developing techniques. The heliograph and the instantaneous process were ways Boake was able to maintain the fine art quality of his execution. The competitors from other local studios moved to larger prints, while Boake maintained his artistic reputation, working on finer photographs.
Barcroft was also often seen using, a carte de visite, which is 10 x 6.4 cm stiff card, with a paper photograph attached, invented in 1854 by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disderi.
Barcroft Capel Boake