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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