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Latitude
-36.75
Longitude
144.266667
Start Date
1871-01-01
End Date
1871-01-01

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ID
tba507

Extended Data

DAAO URL
https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ernest-edward-moffitt
Birth Place
Bendigo, Vic, Australia
Biography
painter, illustrator, musician and scholar, was born in Bendigo, Victoria. He was one of the second group of artists at Charterisville. A close friend of Norman and Lionel Lindsay , he too worked in pen and ink and made etchings; he also showed watercolour views of Melbourne at the Victorian Artists’ Society in 1893-98. A member of the Cannibal Club, it was he who 'discovered’ Fasoli’s Cafe, subsequently a celebrated Bohemian rendezvous. He designed the title page for Marshall Hall’s Hymn to Sydney 1897. An 1890s cartoon sketch of Marshall Hall is in the National Gallery of Australia’s collection of the artist’s ephemera. Was he related to the cartoonist Herbert Moffitt ? Ernest Moffitt died young; the memorial book published in his honour was of art-historical significance. This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1996 Last updated: 2007
Born
b. 1871
Summary
Melbourne artist/young man about town, who died early - memorial book could well be the first monograph written on an Australian artist.
Gender
Male
Died
1899
Age at death
28