Edmund Walpole Brooke

Edmund Walpole Brooke (18 September 1865 – 1938) was an Australian painter.[1][2] Born in Melbourne, Brooke moved to Japan in his youth, where his father, John Henry Brooke, was a reporter and director of the Japan Daily Herald.[1][3][4] He married a Japanese woman and they had a daughter.[3]

Edmund Walpole Brooke
Born(1865-09-13)September 13, 1865
Eaglemont, Victoria, Australia
Died1938 (aged 72–73)
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting

He exhibited at the Royal Academy, London and the Paris Salon in 1890 and 1891.[1] In 1890, he was a friend of Vincent van Gogh,[5][6][7] and joined van Gogh on his plein air painting trips.[1][3] Research on E. W. Brooke and his connection with van Gogh is being carried out by Tsukasa Kodera, a professor of art history at Osaka University.[3][8]

References
  1. "Edmund Walpole Brooke :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online". www.daao.org.au.
  2. "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 6, 018. Victoria, Australia. 19 September 1865. p. 4. Retrieved 5 June 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. Libbey, Peter (4 June 2021). "The Hunt for Clarity About van Gogh's Last Days Leads to Maine". The New York Times.
  4. "Art Notes". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 17, 614. New South Wales, Australia. 1 September 1894. p. 5. Retrieved 5 June 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. Benfey, Christopher (20 December 2018). "Is It Like Japan Yet?". The New York Review.
  6. "Van Gogh et le Japon - L'ŒIL - n° 714". Le Journal Des Arts (in French).
  7. van Tilborgh, Louis; Kodera, Tsukasa; Bakker, Nienke (2018). Van Gogh and Japan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  8. "Tsukasa Kodera". tsukasakodera.academia.edu. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
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