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Alfred Scott Broad (1854 – 27 April 1929) was an Australian artist, regarded as the first black-and-white artist born in South Australia to be published. He was known as "Alf", and was often referred to as "A. Scott Broad" as though his surname was "Scott-Broad", and was often written that way. An adult daughter was the subject of an unsolved mystery disappearance. ==History== Alf was born in Adelaide a son of James Broad (ca.1830 – 14 June 1895) coachbuilder then music warehouseman and organ builder, who arrived in South Australia on the ''Osceola'' on 4 April 1851. He studied at the South Australian School of Art and contributed drawings to ''Adelaide Punch'' from 1868, and ''Lantern'' (later ''Quiz and the Lantern'') from 1874 to 1890. He set up a studio in his father's organ-building workshop on the corner of Gilles and Hanson Streets. He was principal illustrator for ''Portonian'' from 1871 to 1879. He moved to Melbourne, where he contributed to ''Australasian Sketcher'', Frearson's ''Illustrated Australian News'' and ''Melbourne Punch''. He was appointed to the staff of ''Illustrated Sydney News''.〔McCulloch, Alan ''Encyclopedia of Australian Art'' Hutchinson of London, 1968.〕 He returned to South Australia, and contributed to Frearson's ''Pictorial Australian'' from 1886.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aboriginal Life in Australia ) A hand-colored lithograph.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SA Memory )〕 He was in 1892 a founding member of the Adelaide Easel Club. The Art Gallery of South Australia has a watercolor by Alf Scott Broad: ''The First Stone House erected in South Australia'', depicting George Bates's house on Kangaroo Island, painted in 1887. and a print ''Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, S.A. 1837'' from ca.1880.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, S.A. 1837 )〕 He ran an import business. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Scott Broad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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