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William Charles Duke (1814 – 17 October 1853) was an Irish-born Australian artist remembered primarily for his portraits of several Māori leaders, and as a "journeyman painter of lively marine oil paintings of whaling, commissioned by Hobart shipowners".〔Lindsay Broughton, ''The Companion to Tasmanian History'' ((online ) at the University of Tasmania)〕 == Biography == William Charles Duke was born in Cork, to Catherine, wife of carpenter Charles Duke. He was baptised on 16 July 1815 in St Anne, Shannon,〔Design and Art Australia Online, (biographical entry, originally from ''The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870'' )〕 and followed his father into carpentry. Duke married dressmaker Lucy on 16 February 1840,〔Caroline Von Oppeln, (artist biography ), Design and Art Australia Online, updated 2011〕 and together they undertook assisted migration to Australia, arriving in Sydney with their son Charles, born on the voyage, aboard the Lady McNaughton on 16 December 1840; Charles died in Sydney on 2 December 1841, aged 1 year.〔Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, NSW〕 Duke worked as a scene-painter and mechanist at Sydney’s Royal Victoria Theatre until 1844, when he spent several months in New Zealand.〔''(Gallery secures Duke portrait )'', Helen Musa, ''CityNews.com.au'', 6 March 2012〕 When he returned to Australia it was to Hobart, where he landed on 7 May 1845 aboard the Sir John Franklin. Lucy and their now two children joined him from Sydney in September, by which time he was established as a scene-painter at the Hobart Town Royal Victoria Theatre in Campbell Street. In Tasmania, Duke first began to work as a portrait painter; his earliest painting is a portrait believed to be of Mrs Wilkinson, née Eldridge, signed and dated October 1845. In 1846, Duke produced some of the earliest painted depictions of individual Māori when he finished two small portraits apparently begun in New Zealand, and undertook a larger-scale portrait of one of the Māori men transported for imprisonment in Tasmania's Maria Island in November 1846,〔''Maori times, Maori places: prophetic histories'', Karen Sinclair, (page 182 )〕 during the early New Zealand wars. 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「William Duke (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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