[1] Officer was born at Murray Downs, New South Wales, near Swan Hill, Victoria.
[1] He was the third son of Suetonius Henry Officer and his wife Mary Lillias Rigg, a daughter of the Rev.
His grandfather, Sir Robert Officer, was speaker of the Tasmanian house of assembly for many years.
In 1912 his painting, "The Woolshed", was purchased under the Alfred Felton bequest for the national gallery, Melbourne.
At a meeting on 30 August 1912 which founded the Australian Art Association at Melbourne, he was elected its president and held the position for the rest of his life.