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in August 1853. There is every likelihood that Edwin was encouraged to create a visual travelogue â a diorama â of life in the goldfields. According to one newspaper report âthese pictures are destined to be exhibited in the mother countryâ, perhaps for Edwin to follow in his fatherâs footsteps as an
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and Jane (née
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SAD END OF A GRANDSON OF SIDDONS. â An inquest was held at
Peckham yesterday concerning the death of Edwin Loftus Roper Stocqueler aged sixty-five. The deceased, who was a grandson of Mrs Siddons, the actress, was an artist in reduced circumstances, and exhibited his paintings on the pavement. His
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The existence of this supposed fabulous animal is likely to be proved at no distant period. Mr. Stocqueler, who has travelled several hundred miles up and down the Murray and
Goulburn rivers in a canvas boat has favoured us with a view of his portfolio . Amongst the drawings we noticed a likeness
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It was during the explorations on the Murray that Edwin is said to have seen the bunyip, defined by the Oxford
English Dictionary as âa fabulous monster inhabiting the rushy swamps and lagoons in the interior of Australiaâ. Newspaper reports as far back as 1845 introduced readers to the discovery of
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No record has been found of how Edwin spent the next ten years or so of his life, before he journeyed to
Australia. One source has it that âEdwin Stocqueler, with his mother, sailed for Australia in 1852, encouraged by his father and the opportunity for a moving panorama of the goldfieldsâ. In fact,
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Mr. E. R. Stocqueler is an artist and naturalist of considerable merit, and who only requires that some feeling nature, backed by influence, should extend to him his patronage, and bring him into notice, to enable him no longer to pine in obscurity and dread, or sense of indigence. He has travelled
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Gertrude then moved to Natal province, South Africa, where she gave birth to a son in 1867. It is not known exactly when Edwin moved to South Africa, or why that destination was chosen. Some of his paintings of the period, including one of Durban in 1870, have been recorded. Gertrude died in 1872.
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Later in 1857, soon after his return from the river trip, Edwin set up a diorama in
Bendigo, the details of which are well described by Mimi Colligan. Edwinâs use of this form of public presentation â successfully exploited by his father in London â seemed to have had less appeal in Australia.
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on 17 May 1860 for Bombay, the home of the
Spencer family. Soon after arriving, Stocqueler âaccompanied the British commissioner in Aden, (the then) Colonel Coghlan, to Muscat and Zanzibar to investigate the cause of conflict between the sons of the deceased Sayyid Said. The Muscat and Zanzibar
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Edwin made clear his dislike of the way the story had been written up: âIn the first place, I did not call it the Bunyip, nor did I ever say positively the size of it, as I never saw the whole of oneâ, continuing âHowever, I know more about it than I am at present disposed to tell; but when my
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Having returned to
England in the 1870s, Stocqueler married Sarah Edith Hinder (1854-1911) in 1876. They had one child. Stocqueler by now was a âlandscape and animal painterâ, a description he perhaps adopted in England after painting âA hunter named âElaineââ in 1885.
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Commission, on which Edwin acted as Clerk, also made enquiries concerning the slave-trade.â It is not clear why this sudden change of interest began, or when and where Edwin met Sir
William Coghlan, but in 1876 Stocqueler was referred to the Anti-Slavery Society by
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Edwin spent the first few years of his time in
Australia painting life in the goldfields, and scenes of aboriginal people. He and his mother later travelled on the major rivers of Australia, principally the Murray, with each exploiting their artistic talents:
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Stocqueler stated that âMr. Phaey, R.A. (since secretary to the London Art Union) refused when I was twelve years old to take any salary for teaching me drawing, for, said he âHe can draw as well as I can.ââ This perhaps indicates that âMr Phaeyâ (actually
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By the 1880s, Stocqueler had clearly fallen on hard times. A friend from Bendigo days, Charles Walsh Pugh, came across Edwin in London and reported that Stocqueler âhad seen better daysâ, something made even more clear in the announcement of Edwinâs death:
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which was said to have been as famous as Eton or Harrow and "the best public school in England". The reputation of this school could well be the basis for part of the incorrect assertion that he was âeducated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridgeâ.
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The earliest record of Stocqueler in Australian newspapers seems to be the mention of his painting (coincidentally) of The Beehive, an area of canvas tenements on Camp Street, Bendigo, dated 1853, which lends support to the emigration date.
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father was a private reader to the Queen for a number of years. According to the evidence of the widow, the deceased fell dead in the street while on his way to a doctorâs. VerdictââDeath from natural causes.â
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At some point in this period Edwin met Gertrude Harriet Williams in India; they married at the Free Church, Bombay on 10 Aug 1861. A son born 1863 died that same year, and a daughter was born in 1864.
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considerably in the far distant wilds of the country, his companion being no less a person than his mother, a woman of cultivated tastes, and rather a good painter of flowers.
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Church, Hertfordshire, signed but not dated, now held in Hertford Museum. They were purchased at an auction in 1938, but the museum knows nothing more about them.
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diorama (in which is an almost life size portrait of the beast) is painted, I shall give a full, true, and particular account of what I saw, did, and discovered.â
156:(18 November 1829 â 28 October 1895) was a British artist who worked mainly in Australia, South Africa and Zanzibar; and, towards the end of his life, in England.
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The report, which was widely syndicated, continued with a detailed description of the beast, apparently provided by Stocqueler. In a letter to the
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Edwin travelled from Bombay to England and back to Calcutta with his mother when he was three. In early 1836 they sailed to Liverpool on the
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The Once Noted Zanzibar Slave Market in 1860, from an original picture by Edwin Stocqueler, Clerk to the Muscat & Zanzibar Commission
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of the bunyip, or rather a view of the neck and shoulders of the animal.
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Stocqueler, Edwin (3 July 1857). "Original Correspondence: The Bunyip".
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