C. Elder

Also known as Charles Elder
  • Artist (Painter)
Probably Charles Elder, the stepson of Chester Earles, who presumably taught him to paint and lent four of Elder's oil sketches to the 1869 Melbourne Public Library Exhibition.

painter, catalogued as the artist of four untitled oil sketches lent by Chester Earles to the 1869 Melbourne Public Library Exhibition, was probably Charles Elder , Caroline Earles’s son from a previous marriage. Presumably, he was taught to paint in oils by his stepfather although any ambition to be a painter appears to have been short-lived. No subsequent works are known.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011