Ludwig Becker b. 5 September 1808

  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly been acknowledged and praised.
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associate of
Sir William Hooker
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associate of
Dr Johann Kaup
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associate of
Heinrich Ludwig Brönner
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associate of
Archduke Hesse-Darmstadt
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associate of
Philip Oakden
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associate of
Lieutenant-Governor Sir William Denison
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associate of
Lady Denison
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associate of
Von Humboldt
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associate of
Schiller
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associate of
Professor McCoy
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associate of
Robert O'Hara Burke
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child of
Ernst Friedrich Becker
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associate of
Peter Vogel
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associate of
William John Wills
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associate of
John Michael Crossland
1808
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Frederick Schoenfeld
1808
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Arthur James Stopps
1808
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
William Strutt
1808
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Julie Elizabeth Agnes Vieusseux
1808
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Eliza Younghusband
1808
Artist, Artist (Mixed Media Artist), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Ferdinand von Mueller
1808
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References [<ExternalResource: (1989), 'Ludwig Becker in Tasmania', Australian National Gallery Association News, Nov-Dec, Now National Gallery of Australia.>, <ExternalResource: von Mueller, F., 'Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1864-65'.>, <ExternalResource: von Mueller, F., 'Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1860-62'.>, <ExternalResource: von Mueller, F. (1860), 'Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1858-82'.>, <ExternalResource: Tipping, M. (1968), 'Ludwig Becker', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3.>, <ExternalResource: Bonyhady, T. (1987), 'The Colonial Image: Australian Painting 1800-1880', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Denison, W. (1870), 'Varieties of Vice-Regal Life', London, England, vol. 1.>, <ExternalResource: Downer, C. & Phipps, J. (1985), 'Victorian Vision: 1834 Onwards', National Gallery of Victoria catalogue, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Dutton, G. (1874), 'White on Black: The Australian Aborigine Portrayed in Art', South Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: McCoy, F. (1885), 'Natural History of Victoria: Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria', vol. 1.>, <ExternalResource: Moorehead, A. (1963), 'Cooper's Creek', London, England.>, <ExternalResource: Sayers, A. (1989), 'Drawing in Australia', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Becker, Ludwig (1850), 'Letters to Dr J. Kaup', 1850-55, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, manuscript 999.>, <ExternalResource: 'Burke and Wills Papers', La Trobe Library, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Tipping, M. (1979), 'Ludwig Becker: Artist and Naturalist with the Burke and Wills Expedition', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Tipping, M. (1968), 'Portrait of William Buckley attributed to Ludwig Becker', La Trobe Library Journal, vol. 1, no. 1.>, <ExternalResource: Tipping, M. (1978), 'Becker's portraits of Billy and Jemmy (Tilki)', La Trobe Library Journal, vol. 6, no. 21.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, A. (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art', Melbourne, Vic. 2nd edition.>, <ExternalResource: Ewart, A. J. (ed.) (1910), 'Plants Indigenous to Victoria', vol. 2.>] [<ExternalResource: (1989), 'Ludwig Becker in Tasmania', Australian National Gallery Association News, Nov-Dec, Now National Gallery of Australia.>, <ExternalResource: von Mueller, F., 'Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1864-65'.>, <ExternalResource: von Mueller, F., 'Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1860-62'.>, <ExternalResource: von Mueller, F. (1860), 'Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1858-82'.>]