Edwin Augustus Porcher

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Edwin Augustus Porcher was a sketcher and naval officer. He was scientific observer and unofficial artist aboard the Royal Navy's corvette Fly which, with the schooner Bramble, carried out the first hydrographic survey of the north-eastern Australian coast in 1842-45.
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associate of
Harden Sidney Melville
1824
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Thomas Bock
1790
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Knud Geelmuyden Bull
1811
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)
associate of
John Edward Davis
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Captain F. P. Blackwood
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associate of
John Macarthur
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child of
Rev George Porcher
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child of
Amelia Porcher
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associate of
Simpkinson De Wesselow
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associate of
Captain William Honyman
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References [<ExternalResource: Moyal, A. (1986), 'A bright and savage land, Scientists in Colonial Australia', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: O'Byrne, W. (1849), 'A Naval Biographical Dictionary', London, England, UK.>, <ExternalResource: Savours, A. & McConnell, A. (1982), 'The history of the Rossbank Observatory, Tasmania', Annals of Science, Volume 39.>]