Marmaduke Matthews
Born
Marmaduke Matthews

(1837-08-29)29 August 1837
Barcheston, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Died24 September 1913(1913-09-24) (aged 76)
Toronto, Canada
NationalityEnglish born-Canadian
EducationCowley School, Oxford, and London University, later, in London, England, with Thomas Miles Richardson Jr., a watercolour artist from Oxford
Known forPainter

Marmaduke Matthews RCA (29 August 1837 – 24 September 1913) was an English-Canadian painter, born in Barcheston, Warwickshire, England.[1][2]

Watercolour painting by Marmaduke Matthews
Wychwood Park (c. 1895)

Career

Matthews studied watercolour painting at Oxford, England before moving to Toronto, Canada in 1860 to embark on a career as an painter of landscape. He was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint the Canadian prairies and rocky mountains. He worked for William van Horne, then-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and made several cross-country trips to Canada's west, including in 1887, 1889 and 1892.[3] He reportedly drew his sketches from the cowcatcher of a locomotive.[4]

He is also notable for playing a founding role in the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts as a watercolour painter. In Toronto, he is affectionately remembered as the creator of Wychwood Park in 1874 - a plot of land that he once lived on, that became an artists' community and is now one of the higher-income neighbourhoods located northwest of downtown Toronto.[3]

Matthews died in Toronto on 24 September 1913.[5] His works are included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada,[1] the Art Gallery of Ontario,[6] and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 National Gallery of Canada
  2. ↑ MacDonald 1967, p. 1153.
  3. 1 2 Lost Rivers: Wychwood Park
  4. ↑ Canadian Prairie Watercolour Landscapes: Artist Profile of Marmaduke Matthews
  5. ↑ "Marmaduke Matthews Dead". The Gazette. Toronto. 25 September 1913. p. 1. Retrieved 23 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Wychwood Park". Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "Cattle by the Creek". The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Retrieved 1 September 2020.

Bibliography

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