Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson b. 19 April 1821

  • Artist (Painter)
Watercolour painter, architect, engineer, administrator and police commissioner, between 1850 and 1863 he worked in Fremantle WA where he designed some significant buildings. He also sketched the changing colonial scene.

Citations

  • 'British Parliamentary Papers 1850 1863: Correspondence on convict discipline and transportation’.

  • Birman, W. (1974), 'Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 4, Pike, Douglas (ed.), Melbourne, NSW.

  • Campbell, R. (1975), 'The Fremantle Prison’, Fremantle, WA.

  • Chapman, B. (1979), 'The Colonial Eye’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

  • Hutchison, D. (c.1970), 'The Making of the Fremantle Museum’, Perth, WA.

  • Kerr, J. S. (1988), 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind’, National Trust , Sydney, NSW.

  • Reece, R. & Pascoe, R. (1983), 'A Place of Consequence: A Pictorial History of Fremantle’, Fremantle, WA.

Initial data sources

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