Edmund Walpole Brooke b.

Also known as E. W. Brooke, Walpole Brooke
  • Artist (Painter)
A late nineteenth-century artist whose works are referred to, though not identified, in a newspaper article.
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Painter, was born and lived in Melbourne until leaving to study art in Europe. He was working in Japan in the 1890s. On 1 September 1894, the Sydney Morning Herald (p.5) reported: 'Japanese papers state that an exhibition has been held in Yokohama of upwards of 20 studies in oil by Mr. E.W. Brooke, a native of Melbourne. He is the son of Mr. J.H. Brooke, editor and proprietor of the Japan Mail, who was Minister of Land and Works in Victoria in 1860-61. His son, the artist, studied painting in Europe, and some of his works have been hung in the Royal Academy, London and in the Paris Salon. They are chiefly figures and landscapes.’


 


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