Charles Doudiet
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Background
Doudiet was born in Switzerland. He sketched the burning of Bentley’s Hotel, and other Eureka Stockade related scenes.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Doudiet may have been a participant at the Stockade on 3 December and his notes record that he helped carry the dying Captain Ross to the Free Trade Hotel on the 5th. <ref.http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00294b.htm </ref>
Post 1854 Experiences
In The News
In 1996 sixteen of his sketches were sold to the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery for $245,000.[2]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
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