Alfred Scott Broad

Alfred Scott Broad (1854 – 27 April 1929) was an Australian artist, regarded as the first black-and-white artist born in South Australia to be published. He was known as "Alf", and was often referred to as "A. Scott Broad" as though his surname was "Scott-Broad", and was often written that way. An adult daughter was the subject of an unsolved mystery disappearance.

History

Alf was born in Adelaide a son of James Broad (ca.1830 – 14 June 1895) coachbuilder then music warehouseman and organ builder, who arrived in South Australia on the Osceola on 4 April 1851.^[1]

He studied at the South Australian School of Art and contributed drawings to Adelaide Punch from 1868, and Lantern (later Quiz and the Lantern) from 1874 to 1890. He set up a studio in his father's organ-building workshop on the corner of Gilles and Hanson Streets.^[2] He was principal illustrator for Portonian from 1871 to 1879. He moved to Melbourne, where he contributed to Australasian Sketcher, Frearson's Illustrated Australian News^[3] and Melbourne Punch. He was appointed to the staff of Illustrated Sydney News.^[4]

He returned to South Australia, and contributed to Frearson's Pictorial Australian from 1886.^[5][6] He was in 1892 a founding member of the Adelaide Easel Club.

The Art Gallery of South Australia has a watercolor by Alf Scott Broad: The First Stone House erected in South Australia, depicting George Bates's house on Kangaroo Island, painted in 1887.^[7] and a print Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, S.A. 1837 from ca.1880.^[8]

He ran an import business.^[9]

Family

James Broad ( – 1895) was married to Ann Matilda (ca.1825 – 14 August 1905): they had residence "Trevethan House" on Hanson Street, Adelaide from 1865 or earlier. Their sons were:

• John James Broad (ca.1853 – 1 March 1933), organ builder, married Elizabeth Rogers (1854 – 31 December 1928) on 25 March 1875.

• Edie Muriel Broad (ca.1888 – 7 October 1948) married Augustus Eckersley "Gus" Cawthorne (ca.1887 – 15 July 1937), musician and noted businessman; they lived at Ningana Avenue Kings Park^[10]
• eldest daughter Eveleen Pearl ( – ) married Colin Dawson McFarlane on 5 December 1911
• second son George Percival Broad ( – 9 April 1891)

• second son Alfred Scott Broad (1854 – 27 April 1929), artist and subject of this article, married Emmeline Fanny Ray ( – 27 October 1933) of Melbourne on 12 June 1884. She was an artist herself, and author of The Sex Problem;^[11] In 1912 they had a home "Helmsdale" in Glenelg;^[11] his last address was 6 Kintore Avenue, Prospect. They had one adult son and at least one daughter (obituaries and a death notice^[12] mention Elsie and Mavis, hard to verify):

• Wilfred Ray Broad (ca.1885 – 30 December 1952) was a mining engineer and metallurgist at Broken Hill.^[13] He married Marie McGrath (ca.1884 – 9 October 1930) of Nowra on 27 December 1915. He married again, in 1933 or 1934, to Beatrice Annie "Trixie" Lock ( – 10 January 1935), killed in a car crash at Molong, New South Wales.^[14] His third wife Florence survived him.
• Hilda Scott Broad (ca.1893 – ) disappeared from their Glenelg home in May 1913, and was never heard from again.^[15]

• Edwin Broad (ca.1857 – March 1927) of the Adelaide Telegraph Department married Phoebe Eliza Webb (ca.1862 – 24 October 1939) of Mount Gambier on 9 January 1883; they lived at Edith Street, Unley Park then 6 Rutland Ave. Unley Park.

• eldest daughter Ethel Marguerite Broad married George R. Best ( – ) son of Sir Robert Best, on 27 December 1915.
• second daughter Gwendoline Amy married Leslie J. Cavanagh on 8 November 1913
• son 11 May 1892

• Arthur Charles Broad (ca.1859 – 9 July 1936) of the city treasury married Esther Maud "Ettie" Carthy (ca.1862 – 9 July 1930) on 9 November 1882.
• fifth son Fred Scott Broad (23 May 1865 – 9 January 1927), photographer and noted lawn bowler, married Marie (Mary?) Tonkin ( – 24 July 1935) on 13 June 1887. They lived in Victoria then "The Boulevard", Hawthorn.

• Gladys (Gwladys?) Hilda Scott Broad ( – ) married Ernest Lisle Cocking (9 September 1886 – 1964) on 20 December 1916

• William Henry Peers Broad (10 July 1867 – ) married Helen Dove "Nellie" Low (ca.1856 – 9 February 1926) on 13 January 1892, lived at 9 Cambridge Terrace, Kingswood.

• eldest son Leonard William Peers Broad ( – ) married Ella May Laing on 16 December 1923
• youngest son Ivan Charles G. Broad ( – ) married Mary Lavinia Shipton on 30 June 1920. Ivan was a pioneering motorist.^[16]
• youngest daughter Ida Kathleen "Pat" ( – ) married Norman Alfred Watt on 13 March 1926

References

1. "The late Mr. J. Broad". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 15 June 1895. p. 5. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
2. "The Artists and Studios of Adelaide". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 1 January 1886. p. 6. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
3. "Death of the Poet Longfellow". South Australian Weekly Chronicle. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 1 April 1882. p. 18. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
4. McCulloch, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London, 1968.
5. "Aboriginal Life in Australia". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 January 2015. A hand-colored lithograph.
6. "SA Memory". State Library of SA. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
7. "The Jubilee Exhibition". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 18 August 1887. p. 6. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
8. "Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, S.A. 1837". Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
9. "Late Mr. A. Scott Broad.". The Register News-Pictorial. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 29 April 1929. p. 14. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
10. "Obituary". The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 16 July 1937. p. 18. Retrieved 23 January 2015. His wife given in BMD notices as "Ellie" and "Effie".
11. "Our Adelaide Women of Interest". Daily Herald. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 8 March 1913. p. 5 Section: Magazine Section. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
12. "Deaths". The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 24 January 1953. p. 21. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
13. "Personal". Daily Herald. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 5 March 1915. p. 4. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
14. "Obituary". The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser. SA: National Library of Australia. 18 January 1935. p. 1. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
15. "Hunt for Missing Friends.". The News. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 15 July 1941. p. 5. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
16. "6,400—Mile Drive into the Interior.". The Mail. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 8 August 1936. p. 8. Retrieved 24 January 2015.