Edmund Walpole Brooke

Edmund Walpole Brooke (18 September 1865 – 1938) was an Australian painter. Born in Melbourne, Brooke moved to Japan in his youth, where his father, John Henry Brooke, was a reporter and director of the Japan Daily Herald. He married a Japanese woman and they had a daughter. and joined van Gogh on his plein air painting trips. Research on E. W. Brooke and his connection with van Gogh is being carried out by Tsukasa Kodera, a professor of art history at Osaka University.