watercolourist and naval officer, was second master of HMS Rattlesnake when the ship was in Australian waters in 1847-50. His 1850 watercolour (National Library of Australia) of the Sydney grave of his commander, Captain Owen Stanley , was presented to Lady Stanley by Captain (later Admiral) Francis Beaufort in 1851 with an accompanying letter which stated: 'I do not know which is the most conspicuous, the affectionate and grateful feeling by which he was prompted or the excellence of the drawing – both help to do honour to the memory of my lost friend – and both will give it value in a mother’s eye’. Lieutenant Brooker returned to Tasmania in the early 1860s, engaged on a naval survey of the Derwent River. Included on a map showing the area he surveyed, produced by the navy’s Hydrographic Office and titled Tasmania: River Derwent: Port of Hobart Town , is a vignette 'view of Hobart Town drawn by Lt E.W. Brooker R.N.’. He showed two works, Acropolis of Athens and Street in Cairo , at the 1862 Hobart Town Art Treasures Exhibition, then announced in March 1863 that he was returning to England and advertised the sale of his household goods.
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