Alfred Scott Broad
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.[1]
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.[2] 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[3] and Melbourne Punch. He was appointed to the staff of Illustrated Sydney News.[4]
He returned to South Australia, and contributed to Frearson's Pictorial Australian from 1886.[5][6] 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.[7] and a print Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, S.A. 1837 from ca.1880.[8]
He ran an import business.[9]
Family
James Broad ( – 1895) was married to Ann Matilda (ca.1825 – 14 August 1905): they had residence "Trevethan House" on Hanson Street, Adelaide from 1865 or earlier. Their sons were:
- John James Broad (ca.1853 – 1 March 1933), organ builder, married Elizabeth Rogers (1854 – 31 December 1928) on 25 March 1875.
- Edie Muriel Broad (ca.1888 – 7 October 1948) married Augustus Eckersley "Gus" Cawthorne (ca.1887 – 15 July 1937), musician and noted businessman; they lived at Ningana Avenue Kings Park[10]
- eldest daughter Eveleen Pearl ( – ) married Colin Dawson McFarlane on 5 December 1911
- second son George Percival Broad ( – 9 April 1891)
- second son Alfred Scott Broad (1854 – 27 April 1929), artist and subject of this article, married Emmeline Fanny Ray ( – 27 October 1933) of Melbourne on 12 June 1884. She was an artist herself, and author of The Sex Problem;[11] In 1912 they had a home "Helmsdale" in Glenelg;[11] his last address was 6 Kintore Avenue, Prospect. They had one adult son and at least one daughter (obituaries and a death notice[12] mention Elsie and Mavis, hard to verify):
- Wilfred Ray Broad (ca.1885 – 30 December 1952) was a mining engineer and metallurgist at Broken Hill.[13] He married Marie McGrath (ca.1884 – 9 October 1930) of Nowra on 27 December 1915. He married again, in 1933 or 1934, to Beatrice Annie "Trixie" Lock ( – 10 January 1935), killed in a car crash at Molong, New South Wales.[14] His third wife Florence survived him.
- Hilda Scott Broad (ca.1893 – ) disappeared from their Glenelg home in May 1913, and was never heard from again.[15]
- Edwin Broad (ca.1857 – March 1927) of the Adelaide Telegraph Department married Phoebe Eliza Webb (ca.1862 – 24 October 1939) of Mount Gambier on 9 January 1883; they lived at Edith Street, Unley Park then 6 Rutland Ave. Unley Park.
- eldest daughter Ethel Marguerite Broad married George R. Best ( – ) son of Sir Robert Best, on 27 December 1915.
- second daughter Gwendoline Amy married Leslie J. Cavanagh on 8 November 1913
- son 11 May 1892
- Arthur Charles Broad (ca.1859 – 9 July 1936) of the city treasury married Esther Maud "Ettie" Carthy (ca.1862 – 9 July 1930) on 9 November 1882.
- fifth son Fred Scott Broad (23 May 1865 – 9 January 1927), photographer and noted lawn bowler, married Marie (Mary?) Tonkin ( – 24 July 1935) on 13 June 1887. They lived in Victoria then "The Boulevard", Hawthorn.
- Gladys (Gwladys?) Hilda Scott Broad ( – ) married Ernest Lisle Cocking (9 September 1886 – 1964) on 20 December 1916
- William Henry Peers Broad (10 July 1867 – ) married Helen Dove "Nellie" Low (ca.1856 – 9 February 1926) on 13 January 1892, lived at 9 Cambridge Terrace, Kingswood.
- eldest son Leonard William Peers Broad ( – ) married Ella May Laing on 16 December 1923
- youngest son Ivan Charles G. Broad ( – ) married Mary Lavinia Shipton on 30 June 1920. Ivan was a pioneering motorist.[16]
- youngest daughter Ida Kathleen "Pat" ( – ) married Norman Alfred Watt on 13 March 1926
References
- ↑ "The late Mr. J. Broad". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 15 June 1895. p. 5. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "The Artists and Studios of Adelaide". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 1 January 1886. p. 6. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "Death of the Poet Longfellow". South Australian Weekly Chronicle. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 1 April 1882. p. 18. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ↑ McCulloch, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London, 1968.
- ↑ "Aboriginal Life in Australia". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 January 2015. A hand-colored lithograph.
- ↑ "SA Memory". State Library of SA. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ↑ "The Jubilee Exhibition". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 18 August 1887. p. 6. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ↑ "Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, S.A. 1837". Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ↑ "Late Mr. A. Scott Broad.". The Register News-Pictorial. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 29 April 1929. p. 14. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "Obituary". The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 16 July 1937. p. 18. Retrieved 23 January 2015. His wife given in BMD notices as "Ellie" and "Effie".
- 1 2 "Our Adelaide Women of Interest". Daily Herald. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 8 March 1913. p. 5 Section: Magazine Section. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "Deaths". The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 24 January 1953. p. 21. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
- ↑ "Personal". Daily Herald. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 5 March 1915. p. 4. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "Obituary". The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser. SA: National Library of Australia. 18 January 1935. p. 1. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "Hunt for Missing Friends.". The News. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 15 July 1941. p. 5. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "6,400—Mile Drive into the Interior.". The Mail. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 8 August 1936. p. 8. Retrieved 24 January 2015.