Agent TypePersonPlace of BirthEssex, EnglandPlace of DeathGeelong, Victoria, AustraliaActivities & OccupationsArtistsGenderMaleHistoryHerbert Woodhouse, painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor, was born in the UK, the second son of the Australian artist, Frederick Woodhouse senior and brother of Frederick Woodhouse. He came to Australia in 1857, left school at 14 to do lithographic work and draw for New Sporting Era. He contributed to the Adelaide Lantern (1874-1890) and worked for Adelaide Punch, including being proprietor for a year. His cartoon Rival Pyrotechnists, depicting the rival fireworks' entrepreneurs the Frenchman Brock and the German Pain was published in Australian Life on 27 January 1887. Woodhouse exhibited with Victorian Academy of Arts 1867-1887, the Yarra Sculptors' Society in 1901, and with the NSW Society of Artists. He also worked in Tasmania and WA in the 1890s. In the 1920s he was exhibiting with the Victorian Artists' Society in Melbourne. In addition to exhibiting his own art, and giving concert performances as a singer, Woodhouse was particulalry active in organising exhibitions, theatrical festivals and benefit concerts, including one, in 1915, for the Belgian Relief Fund.Search records of this agent
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Woodhouse, Herbert J. (1854-10 June 1937). University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 17/03/2025, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/63405
