Edmund Frederick Du Cane b. 23 March 1830

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Engaged as a Royal Engineer to superintend the works for the proposed convict establishment in Western Australia. Du Cane's sketches and paintings of exploratory expeditions, colonial life and Aborigines engaged in traditional pursuits and communicating with colonialists are valued for being some of the earliest recordings of the penal colony. In 1877, after returning to England, he was knighted f

Citations

  • Hasluck, A. (1973), 'Royal Engineer: A Life of Sir Edmund DuCane’, Cremorne, NSW.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870