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BUArtColl · Person · 1872-1945

Alphonse Jongers, a French painter know widely for his portraits, was born in Mézières, France in 1872. His education includes a Bachelor degree in literature from the University of Paris; as well, he studied art at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1889 to 1892 , under French painters , Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) , Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) and Gustave Moreau (1826-1898). Later he won a scholarship and spent two years in Madrid, Spain, copying the works of Diego Velasquez (1599-1660). While in Madrid he met American Portrait artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). He came to Montréal in 1896 and began doing portraits both in Montréal and New York. He died in Montréal Quebec in 1945.

Watt, Robin (1896-1964)
BUArtColl · Person · 1896-1964

Renowned as a talented portrait painter, Robin Watt ( Henry Robertson) was born in Victoria, British Columbia and studied at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, England. During World War I, he served as an officer with the Green Howard Regiment, was wounded in battle and decorated with the Military Cross, and the Croix de Guerre. After the war, he studied for three years at the Slade School of Art, London, with Henry Tonks, Walter Russell, and William Steer; at the St. Martin's School of Art and at the Central School of Art where he learned etching under W.P. Robins. Later, he continued his studies at the Académie Colorossi in Paris and the British School of Art in Rome. An admirer of Augustus John and Edgar Dégas, he worked in oil, watercolour and charcoal, favouring a realist approach, producing portraits, still lifes, and in his later years abstract works.
By the late 1920s, he returned to Canada and settled in Montréal. Around 1932, he returned to England, where he worked for an unknown period with his wife Dodie Watt, as an art teacher in a boy's school. Upon his return to Canada in 1949, he was immediately recognized as a fine portraitist and in the same year, invited to paint the portrait of Earl Wavell, Colonel of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) on the occasion of his visit to Canada. In 1951, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts held a solo exhibition of Watt's portraits and still lifes that art critic Robert Ayre recommended they call "Faces and Flowers".
He died in 1964.

Harris, Robert (1849-1919)
BUArtColl · Person · 1849-1919

Robert Harris was born in Vale of Conway, Wales in 1849. In 1856, his family brought him with them to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. As a youngster, he was encouraged by his mother to paint. He graduated from Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown in 1863, began work as a land surveyor, and painted in spare time. It was not until 1867 that he traveled to Europe and visited many art galleries, which inspired him to become a professional painter. He began painting in Charlottetown in 1868 and was commissioned by Executive council of Prince Edward Island to paint speakers in House of Assembly 1871. He studied art in Boston 1873-74 under William Rimmer (1860-1879) and Thomas Dewing (1851-1938) and on return worked as a portrait painter. He returned to Europe for study in 1876-78 and copied old master, including paintings by Velasquez (1599-1660) at the National Gallery London. He studied under Alphonse Legros, (1837-1911) and painted in the atelier of Léon Bonnet (1868-1936) Paris. He painted in both oil and watercolour and completed many portraits including those of Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Strathcona, Lord Minto and Sir John A. Macdonald. He was chartered member of Royal Canadian Academy. He died in 1919 in Montréal and was buried in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

BUArtColl · Person · 1908-1994

Ruth Tomlinson graduated from McGill in 1930 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1970. She studied painting, first under A. Sheriff Scott (1887–1980) and later under Arthur Lismer (1885-1969). Her works have been exhibited in shows such as those of the Montréal Arts Club, the Edinburgh Festival, and annually from 1956 at the Chelsea Arts Society. Her works can be found in public and private collections primarily in Canada and England.

BUArtColl · Person · 1809-1854

William Henry Bartlett was born in London, England in 1809. He was a topographical painter and between 1821 and 1828 he served an apprenticeship to architect John Britton. Between 1836 and 1852 he made four trips to Canada and the United States. The drawings of Canada made on these trips were published in conjunction with N.P. Willis under the title Canadian Scenery Illustrated, London, 1842. They are a major contribution to Canada's Pictorial History. He died at sea, between Malta and Marseilles in 1854.

Lewis, Stanley (1930-2006)
BUArtColl · Person · 1930-2006

Stanley Lewis, sculptor, photographer and internationally renowned art teacher, was born in Montréal in 1930. He trained at the School of Art and Design at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts under such well-known Canadian artists as Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) and Jacques de Tonnancour (1917-2005). He graduated first in his class with Honours diploma in graphics, design and sculpture. Lewis is a Canadian pioneer in colour stone-cut prints, using a technique of printmaking in which he produces separate stone-cuts for each colour of the print and uses transparent inks to achieve subtle colour relationships. His works are held in many public collections such as the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Québec, the National Gallery of Canada as well as in numerous private collections. Lewis died in 2006 at the Montréal Jewish General Hospital.

BUArtColl · Person · 1926-2009

Born at les Sables d'Olenne, France, André enjoyed her grandfather's collection of paintings as a child and visited the Cathedral St. Baven in Ghent where Van Eyck's "Mystic Lamb" and an important exhibition of Ingres and Delacroix could be seen. Later she studied at the Académie Royale Des Beaux Arts in Brussels, 1943-48; Académie St. Josse De Noode, Brussels, 1947-48; Institut National Supérieur Des Beaux Arts, Antwerp, 1948-49; École Nationale Supérieur Des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, under Marcel Gromaire, 1949-50. She came to Canada in 1951. A painter of abstract humanism, she had been influenced by the work of Ingres, Van Eyck, Memlinc, Brueghel, Henry Moore, and Marc Toby in her quest for expression. Her media includes , oils, water colours, tempera, mixed media, and graphic media. She completed a mural for an Edmonton chapel entitled "Christos Pneuma" and is represented in the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has taught at the University of British Columbia, the Banff School of Fine Arts, and Vancouver Art Gallery. She died in 2009.

BUArtColl · Person · 1953-

François-Marie Bertrand was born in Granby, Québec. He attended École d'art du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1969-1973. Since then he has had many exhibitions , both alone and in a group. He lives in Montreal, Québec.

Ferron, Marcelle (1924-2001)
BUArtColl · Person · 1924-2001

Marcelle Ferron was born in Louisville, Québec in 1924. She became interested in art at 15 through an art teacher at the convent she attended. She studied a year at the École des Beaux-Arts, Québec, under Jean-Paul Lemieux (1904- 1990) and Simone Hudon (1905-1985). In 1947 she signed with other artists, the "Refus Global" manifesto originated by Paul- Emile Borduas (1905-1960) and Alfred Pellan (1906-1988). She worked with Borduas in 1950. In 1958 she studied engraving with Stanley W. Hayter (1901-1988) and in 1953 she moved to Paris, returning annually to Montréal for visits. She has exhibited her work at the Galerie Agnes Lefort, La Galérie Soixante, Musée de Sarrebruck, Louvre, Art Moderne, and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles galleries. In 1960 , as a member of the Non-Figurative Artists Association of Montréal, she exhibited her work at the National Gallery of Canada. She is represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, and the National Gallery of Canada. Marcelle Ferron died in Montreal in 2001.

BUArtColl · Person · 1892-1980

Kenneth Keith Forbes was born in 1892 in Toronto, Ontario. He studied art at the Newlyn School in the United Kingdom where he won a four-year scholarship to the Hospitalfield House School, Arbroath, Scotland. He won a Chase Scholarship in London with a portrait sketch and with that, attended the Slade School of Fine Art. By the young age of nineteen he had a portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy.
As part of the Canadian War Memorials program, during World War I, Kenneth Keith Forbes served as a war artist for Canadian forces.
In 1958, Forbes, Manley MacDonald (1889-1971), Victor Llewellyn Child, (1897-1960), Gordon Roy Conn (1887-1977) and others established the Ontario Institute of Painters, a group that supported traditional realist artists.
Forbes was awarded the Thomas R. Proctor Prize for portraiture by the National Academy of Design, New York in 1932 and 1939. In 1967, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. His works are held by The Canadian War Museum and The House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario among other institutions.
Forbes died in Toronto on February 25, 1980.

Hanel, Olaf (1943- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1943-

Olaf Hanel was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1943. He became a Canadian Citizen in 1982 and lived in the cities of Sherbrooke, Montreal, and Toronto. He has a Master degree in teaching of the visual arts from the Faculty of Education in Pardubice. He has taught art extensively at elementary schools and CEGEP, and illustrated books. As of 2022 he lives Lysá nad Labem, Czech Republic.

BUArtColl · Person · 1882-1974

Born in 1882 in Montréal, Quebec, A.Y. Jackson was a founding member of the Group of Seven. Eventually working mainly in oil, he received his earliest artistic training in his hometown of Montréal when he went to work for lithography company at age of 12. He began his formal studies in 1902, first working under William Brymner (1855-1925) at the Art Association of Montréal, and later at the Chicago Art Institute from 1905 to 1907. Immediately following his education in North America, Jackson traveled to Paris to study under Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921) at the Académie Julian where he was heavily influenced by Impressionism. Subsequent to his studies, he traveled and painted England, France and Italy, and returned to Québec in 1914.With their focus on capturing the Canadian landscape, the paintings that Jackson produced upon his return attracted the attention of fellow artist J.E. H. MacDonald (1873-1932) and Lawren Harris (1885-1970). They eventually convinced Jackson to move to Toronto, where he shared a studio with Tom Thomson (1877-1917) and become involved in all major group trips to Algonquin Park, Georgian Bay, Algoma and the North Shore.Jackson exhibited with the Group of Seven throughout the 1920s. He also made regular sketching trips to Québec in the spring, travelled to regions such as the Canadian Artic in the summer and returned to the studio in Toronto to paint his canvases.
With a career that remained active into his eighties, Jackson exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts from 1904- 1957 and with the Art Association of Montreal from 1903 to 1946. He died in Kleinberg, Ontario in 1974.

Rosenbloom, Lewis, 1906-1995
BUArtColl · Person · 1906-1995

Lewis Rosenbloom was born in Sherbrooke, Québec and educated at Sherbrooke High School and McGill University. He spent seven years teaching in the Marketing Department of the Faculté d'administration at the Université de Sherbrooke. Largely a self-taught painter, Mr. Rosenbloom studied briefly with Eric Goldberg, a well-known Montréal artist.

BUArtColl · Person · 1856-1928

Dutch artist Willem Steelink Jr. was born in Amsterdam on 16 July 1856. He died in the village of Voorburg on 27 November 1928. Besides being a painter, he was also a graphic artist. He is associated with the followers of The Hague School, but also the Laren School. The Laren School is a collective name for a group of artists. These artists worked in and around the village of Laren at the end of the 19th until the beginning of the 20th century. They used a painting style that was originated from The Hague School.

Source: Art Gallery Kompaen https://www.kompaen-lisse.nl/wp/en/w-willem-steelink-jr-2/

Smith, David D. (1927-2005)
BUArtColl · Person · 1927-2005

David Smith was born in 1927. He earned a B.A. at Sir George Williams College (1949), M.A. in Psychology, Bio-metrics and Philosophy of Science from the University Minnesota (1950) and a PhD in Psychology from McGill (1957). In 1960 he accepted an invitation to establish a Department of Psychology at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Québec and an appointment as an Associate Professor of Psychology. During his career at Bishop's he served at various times as Head and Chair of Psychology Department, Acting Head of Sociology, Chair of the Division of Social Sciences, Dean of Arts, member of the University Senate and member of the Executive Committee of the Corporation of Bishop's University. A B.A. in Fine Arts from Bishop's earned during a sabbatical leave in 1979 allowed him to offer an undergraduate course in the Psychology of Arts , one of the few such courses in any Canadian University at the time. He died in 2005.

Ladd, Gordon (1929-2018)
BUArtColl · Person · 1929-2018

Born and raised in the Eastern Townships of Québec, Gordon Ladd has had a lifelong love of nature. In 1967 he decided to study art under the direction of the late Ron Davies, (1932-1982) . After a time of instruction and developing his own unique style, he then spent a period teaching art in various local schools. In 1977 he stopped teaching to devote more time to his paintings. A major project of Gordon's was recording in oils, the vanishing and vanished water or steam powered mills of the Eastern Townships of Québec. Gordon Ladd paintings have been show in exhibitions in Montréal, Lennoxville, Toronto and through the Southern Québec Region. Paintings are also hanging in galleries in Québec and Ontario. His works are found in numerous private collections. He died in Knowlton, Québec in 2018.

Tennent, Madge (1889-1972)
BUArtColl · Person · 1889-1972

Madge Tennent, born Madeline Cook in Dulwich, England, moved with her family to Cape Town, South Africa when she was five. At the age of twelve, she entered an art school in Cape Town and following year her parents, who recognized and encouraged her talent, moved to Paris to enable Madeline to study there. In Paris she studied figure drawing under William Bouguereau, an experience that laid the technical foundation for her later figural drawings and paintings. She and her family subsequently returned to South Africa, and after her marriage in 1915 to Hugh Cowper Tennent, she relocated to his native New Zealand.

BUArtColl · Person · 1888-1956

Alexander Samuel MacLeod also known a A.S. MacLeod was painter and print-maker. A Canadian by birth, Mr. MacLeod studied art in San Francisco, was with the A.E. F. in wartime France, doing mapping and panoramic sketching with the Engineers. He went to Honolulu in 1921 and this is where he had has made his best known pictures in watercolour, oil and lithography. He has won prizes with the California Society of Etchers in 1930 and with the Northwest Print Makers in 1934. He retired to Palo Alto California where he died in 1956.

BUArtColl · Person · 1860-1940

Charles Bartlett was born in England in 1860. He began his education with the intention of becoming a chemist, but switched to fine art, enrolling at the Academy of Art in London at the age of twenty-three. From there he went to Paris to further his studies at the Academie Julian. After he lost his wife and infant son in childbirth, the artist spent a year traveling in Europe with fellow artist Frank Brangwyn. It was at this time that his work maintained a focus on the daily lives of peasant women and children, and began to hone his watercolor and drawing techniques. It wouldn't be until much later that Bartlett, now returned to England and remarried, would discover his love of printmaking and the landscape subject matter he would become known for.
In 1913 he and his wife traveled to Ceylon, Indonesia, and China to sketch and paint. 1915 hailed their arrival in Japan, where they met Austrian artist Fritz Capelari who introduced them to publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Watanabe and Bartlett began a long collaboration in which Watanabe would turn the watercolor landscapes of Bartlett's into color woodcuts; soon, Bartlett himself would use Watanabe's studio to carve and create his own woodblocks.
In 1917, the Bartlett's traveled to Hawaii, intending to make a short visit. However, they fell in love with the landscape and community where they were visiting, and soon established their lives and Charles' career there. He became a co-founder of the Honolulu Print-makers and a prominent member of Hawaii's artistic community until his death in 1940 at the age of eighty.

Simon, Peter James (1950-)
BUArtColl · Person · 1950-

James Simon was born in Montréal in 1950. He has been painting official portraits and portrait art since 1984.

BUArtColl · Person · 1812-1889

Dr. G. J. Bompas was born in Bristol, England on September 12, 1812. Studied medicine in Cambridge and Edinburgh, F.R.C.S. . Married Marianne Bedonne in 1838. They had twelve children. Came to Canada in 1860 and settled in Bury Township; did not practice medicine. Taught Botany and Art at Stanstead College and Bishop's College. He did a great many drawings and paintings of the Eastern Townships. Died in Lennoxville, on June 23, 1889.

Vogt, Adolphe (1842-1871)
BUArtColl · Person · 1842-1871

Adolphe Vogt (1842-1871)
Canadian artist, born in Germany.

Scheuer, W. (fl. 1873-1883)
BUArtColl · Person · fl. 1873-1883

W. Scheuer was active between 1873-1883. He was a staff artist for "Canadian Illustrated News" in Cape Breton and thorughout Ontario and Quebec. .

BUArtColl · Person · 1936-

Tom Forrestall is a Canadian painter born in Middleton, Nova Scotia in 1936. After graduating in 1958 from Mount Allison University (where he studied with Alex Colville (1920-2013) ) he was assistant curator at Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. The following year he became a full time painter. His realistic works, often done in egg tempera, convey his ideas of the East Coast landscape and its dwellings. He painted a large number of out-of-doors watercolours, which express much the same ideas as his egg tempera work, but in a more relaxed, and joyous mood. He became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1986.