Harry Brooker was born in August 1848 near Regents Park in London and lived till September 1940 when he suffered a stroke during an air raid. He married Edmee Isabel Short (featured on one of his paintings known as the Treasured Volume) and they had 6 children. His wife Edmee died in 1920 which may explain the end of period of his painting (although he was 72 years old by that time!). He has a number of descendants that are still alive today in England, Australia and America. |