Edmund Walpole Brooke

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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 .[1][3][4] He married a Japanese woman and they had a daughter. [3]

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]

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Edmund Walpole Brooke :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online". www.daao.org.au.
  2. ^ "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne) (6, 018). Victoria, Australia. 19 September 1865. p. 4. Retrieved 5 June 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Libbey, Peter (2021-06-04). "The Hunt for Clarity About van Gogh's Last Days Leads to Maine". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "Art Notes". The Sydney Morning Herald (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 2021-06-14.
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