Herbert James Woodhouse (1854 – 10 June 1937) was an Australian painter in watercolors, noted for his accuracy of execution,[1] Frederick Wedgewood Woodhouse (c. 1821 – 29 December 1909), was born in Hadley, England, son of painter Samuel Waterhouse.
[2] In 1857 he emigrated to Victoria, settling in Geelong, where he was known as a painter of racehorses, and made a portrait of every Melbourne Cup winner from 1861 to 1888.
The fourth son, Herbert James Woodhouse (1854 – 10 June 1937), was born in Essex and at age three came to Australia with his parents.
He left school at age 14 to take up work in lithography, studying engraving under H. S. Sadd, and drew for the New Sporting Era, a Melbourne weekly.
At least one critic attributed its failure to Woodhouse, whose "ill-conceived and badly drawn cartoons" were only matched by the paper's "vulgar, slangy and oftentimes disgusting" writing.