Charles Doudiet
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Background
Doudiet was born in 1832 in Geneva, Switzerland. He sketched the burning of Bentley’s Hotel, and other Eureka Stockade related scenes.[1] He died in Canada on 13 June 1913.[2]
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.[3]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Doudiet
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
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