page_title: Albert Henry Landseer
section_title: Business ventures
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Henry Landseer / Business ventures
caption_attribution_description: English: A stone warehouse, originally owned by A.H. Landseer, now the Morgan museum. This building, built from local stone, was one of several warehouses built by Albert Landseer along the River Murray in South Australia during the latter half of the 19th century.
context_page_description: Albert Henry Landseer was a businessman and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. He was a pioneer of the River Murray steamboat trade.
  Albert Landseer was born in London in 1829 the only son of Henry Landseer and his wife Lucy. He was a cousin of the noted animal painter Sir Edwin Landseer, who sculpted London's famed Trafalgar Square lions. He studied sculpture under a Mr Johnson, but abandoned art and migrated to South Australia in 1848.
context_section_description: Landseer started a business as a small building contractor for a time before joining the gold rush to Forest Creek, Victoria, about 1850; he was successful there and subsequently on occasional journeys to other goldfields. In 1858 his attention turned to the steamboat trade, then in its infancy, and started a mercantile business, initially in Port Elliot, with his brother-in-law J. P. Tripp. He acted as an agent for Captain Francis Cadell's River Murray Navigation Company and built up his company through wider ventures based on the river. Its headquarters were in Milang, which he had founded in 1856, and woolsheds and offices were in Goolwa, Morgan, and the sea port of Port Victor from where wool was shipped to Europe. He also had extensive interests in flourmills in Milang and elsewhere on Lake Alexandrina, and he owned barges and river steamers, including Bourke, Despatch, Eliza, Gertrude and Industry.
caption: A.H. Landseer Limited warehouse at Morgan, now the Morgan Museum – one of several buildings built by Albert Landseer along the River Murray
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