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BUArtColl · Person · 1834-1922

Charlotte Mount Brock Schreiber (née Morrell) was born in May 1834 in Colchester, England. She studied at Carey's School of Art ( London) between 1850 and 1855. She also took lessons with John Rogers Herbert and instruction in anatomy from a Mr. Scharf. In addition to exhibiting with the Royal Academy of Arts between 1855 and 1875, Charlotte illustrated edition of Edmund Spenser's "The Legend of the Knight of the Red Crosse", (London, 1871) and Elizabeth Barrett's Browning's "The rhyme of the Duchess May" (London 1873).
In 1875, newly married to her second cousin, Weymouth Schreiber of Toronto, Canada, who had three teenaged children, she immigrated to Ontario , locating in Deer Park (Toronto). Within five years Schreiber's talent was recognized and she attained a notable position in the province's artistic community. In 1876 she was elected to the Ontario Society of Artists; the following year she was the only woman on the board of the Ontario School of Art and from 1877 to 1880, its sole woman teacher. She was the first female member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, having been appointed at its founding in 1880. In 1888 she chose to retire rather than resign over its prohibition of women attending meetings.
In the 1890s personal reasons encouraged her to return to England, where she continued to enjoy a prosperous career, painting until her death at the age of 88.

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 · 1833-1914

William Raphael, artist, photographer, art teacher, anatomical illustrator and art restorer was born in 1833 in Nakel, Prussia. From 1859 to 1860 he was employed as an artist at the photography studio of William Notman (1826-1891). By 1863-64 he was associated with photographer A.B. Taber. (?) He died in Montréal in 1914.

BUArtColl · Person · 1834-1903

American artist James McNeil Whistler was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834. Whistler spent his boyhood in Russia, returning to United States in 1849. He attended West Point, (1851-54) and had drawing lessons from Robert Weir (1803-1889). In 1855 he went to Paris and studied painting under Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre (1806-1874) After 1859, Whistler lived chiefly in London although he visited Venice in 1879. He was influenced by Henri Fantin-Latoru (1836-1904), Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), and by Japanese prints. He died in London in 1903.

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.

BUArtColl · Person · 1823-1894

William S. Hunter Junior was born at St. John (now St. Jean-sur-Richelieu) Québec in 1823. He married Miss Nancy Parsons of Stanstead and they had two daughters and one son. In the Canada Directory of 1857-58, he was listed as an artist, illustrator and designer. In 1867 he was listed as a mining broker and 1875 as a manufacturer of boots, shoes and harness. He died November 29, 1894 and is buried in Stanstead, Québec.

Barwick, John A. (1912- ? )
BUArtColl · Person · 1912- (?)

John A. Barwick, born at Toronto Ontario, December 22, 1912, was known for his portraits and winter landscapes of the Laurentian region of Québec, an area just outside of Montréal. Barwick studied under J.S. (1868-1940) and Hortense Gordon (1886-1961) at Wentworth School of Art in Hamilton, Ontario. He came to Montreal in 1945 and worked as a graphic designer for Brigdens Limited, Rapid, Grip and Batten Limited, E.S. & A. Robinson's Limited and many others. As a portrait painter and landscape artist he was represented by the Walter Klinkhoff Gallery and Colbert Gallery in Montréal, and Roberts Gallery in Toronto.
His paintings were shown at Canadian Royal Academy and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Death date (?)

Lindsay, Doreen (1934- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1934-

Doreen Lindsay was born in London, Ontario in 1934. She studied at École Technique de Beal, London, Instituto Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and Concordia University, Montréal. She has lived in Québec since 1959.

BUArtColl · Person · 1885-1956

Lois M. Boothroyd (1885-1956) was an artist residing on Bishop’s Campus in the early 20th century. She was married to Bishop’s Professor E.E. Boothroyd who taught Philosophy, Economics and Church History.

BUArtColl · Person · 1720-1778

An Italian etcher, archaeologist, designer, theorist, and architect, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born in Venice in 1720. His uncle, a designer and hydraulics engineer, taught him the art of drawing. During his early years, he studied stage design and intricate systems of perspective composition. Piranesi's prints and drawings reveal his talent for combining dramatic perspectives and architectural fantasies.
When Piranesi was twenty, he moved to Rome and began a careful study of the city's ancient monuments. He began etching inventive views of ancient ruins and modern Roman structures, images that brought him great popularity, and later began a series of etchings of fantastic prison interiors. During his fifties, Piranesi's interest in archaeology took him to southern Italy, where he produced drawings and etchings of Greek architecture. During an expedition, ill health forced him to return to Rome, where he died at the age of fifty-eight.
Piranesi's highly original designs and ideas influenced many artists and literary figures during and beyond his lifetime. Neo-classical designers and early Romantic writers were quick to recognize his eclectic vision. Piranesi's extensive artistic output was dispersed widely through prints sold to Grand Tourists, who often visited his flourishing workshop. His prints were reproduced in great numbers, even after his death. He died in 1778 at the age of 58 years.

Onley, Toni (1928-2004)
BUArtColl · Person · 1928-2004

Toni Onley was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, on November 20, 1928. He studied painting at the Douglas School of Fine Arts and was later a student of architecture for two years. He came to Canada in 1948 and studied at the Doon School of Fine Arts, Doon, Ontario. In 1958, he was awarded a scholarship to the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he studied with Mexican artist James Pinto (1907-1987). Pinto's abstract impressionistic paintings inspired him to experiment with non-objective painting and collage, and later to produce his major period of abstract painting in the sixties. He then lived in Vancouver, B.C. and in September 1966 went to live in Victoria where he taught in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Victoria.
His work is part of many public collections around the world, including the Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Library of Congress, Washington; National Gallery of Canada; Canada Council Art Bank; Vancouver Art Gallery; and Bishop's University.
He died in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2004.

BUArtColl · Person · 1869-1956

Emily Mary Bibbens Warren was born in England in 1869. She became a British-Canadian artist and illustrator. She worked in ink, watercolour, oil, gouache, and graphite. Her favourite subjects included gardens, landscape, and the interiors and exteriors of buildings. She is well known for sunlight beaming through stained glass windows.
Emily Warren instigated a successful movement to have John Ruskin's home, Brantwood, made into a museum. She lectured before Ruskin Societies.
She took a course in architecture by Sir Bannister Fletcher. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, South Kensington. She took certificates in biology, botany and geology. She moved to Canada in 1919 and lived in Ottawa, Ontario. She lived in Montreal, Quebec from 1928 to 1934. She died in Dunrobin, Ontario in 1956.
She was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Watercolour Society, the Old Dudley Arts Society, the Aberdeen Society of Arts and the Society of Women Artists. She was a member of the Committee for Preservation of Memorials in London.
Critical success
In 1921 she was commissioned by Sir Robert Borden to come to Canada to complete two large canvasses. One, a painting entitled Canada's Tribute, The Great War 1914–1919 and two, Placing the Canadian Colours on Wolfe's Monument in Westminster Abbey. The Canada Tribute paintings were initially hung in the Parliament Buildings but have been hung in the Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Hall of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario since 1947.
She traveled and painted in British Columbia, Belgium, Scotland and France. She exhibited in England. She illustrated Homes and Haunts of John Ruskin by E.T. Cook. She gave lectures in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s illustrated by 1900 handcoloured glass slides reproducing her own paintings. Half of the 1900 slides are in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, along with an extensive collection of correspondence, lecture notes, and biographical material. Two boxes of slides of drawings of individual generals' faces and of flags, preliminary drawings for her paintings, Canada's Tribute and Placing the Canadian Colours on Wolfe's Monument in Westminster Abbey, are in the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. She died in 1956.

Mould, R.
BUArtColl · Person · -
Batemen, Robert (1930- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1930-

Born in Toronto, with a degree in geography from the University of Toronto, Robert Bateman taught high school for over 20 years, including two years in Nigeria. He has been a keen artist and naturalist form his early days and has always painted wildlife and nature. Since the early 1960's he has been an active member of naturalist and conservation organizations and his art reflects his commitment to ecology and preservation. He left teaching in 1976 to paint full time.

BUArtColl · Person · 1941- 2022

David Blackwood was born in Wesleyville, Newfoundland in 1941. He graduated in 1963 from Ontario College of Art with an Honours Diploma in Drawing and Painting.
Blackwood’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with over 90 solo shows and scores of group exhibitions. He has been the subject of two major retrospective exhibitions and the National Film Board’s 1974 Academy-Award nominated documentary film BLACKWOOD. He passed away in 2022.

BUArtColl · Person · 1958-

Originally from France, artist Jean-Michel Correia (1958- ) has been established in Montréal for many years. His academic background in architecture and fine arts led him to studio arts, which he has been practising for 35 years. At once colourful and minimalist, his works have been exhibited in cities such as Paris, New York, Miami, and Seoul. Jean-Michel Correia has taught in the Design department of the Faculté de l’aménagement at the Université de Montréal, and in the Master’s program in Pratiques artistiques actuelles at the Université de Sherbrooke. He is also a curator, an art critic, and a doctoral candidate in Études et pratiques des arts at UQAM.

Buffet, Bernard (1928-1999)
BUArtColl · Person · 1928-1999

Born in Paris in 1928, Bernard Buffet was a painter, lithographer, and etcher who studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts and gained early critical acclaim and fortune through his prolific output – he painted more than 8,000 works in his lifetime – and immediately recognizable stylistic manner. Active during a time when abstraction was the predominant artistic style, Buffet defended representational art and was an active member of the anti-abstraction group L’homme Témoin (The Witness-Man). He died in 1999.

Corbet, Christian ( 1966-)
BUArtColl · Person · 1966-

Christian Cardell Corbet (born 31 January 1966) is a Canadian sculptor, painter and designer. He co-founded and was first President of the Canadian Portrait Academy. He is the Regimental Sculptor of the Royal Canadian Regiment and Sculptor in Residence for the Royal Canadian Navy. He resides in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Fox, John R. (1927- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1927-

John R. Fox was born in 1927 in Montréal, Québec. He attended Museum of Fine Arts School from 1946 to 1949 under artists Goodridge Roberts and William Armstrong. He was awarded a scholarship to study at the Slade School for 1952-53. Later he recieved a grant from Memorial Foundation which allowed him to study in Florence in 1955-66. He was influenced by Goodridge Roberts, and impressionist artists Matisse, Bonnard and Dufy. He painted and drew a wide variety of genre which included, landscapes, portraits, interiors, figues, and still lifes. His work is represented in major public, corporate and private collections in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Carr, M. Emily (1871-1945)
BUArtColl · Person · 1871-1945

Born in 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia, she was educated there until the age of 16. In 1888 she went to San Francisco, California, to study art, returning to Victoria in 1895 to set up a studio to paint and teach art. She had great interest in the local indigenous people and their art. She associated with and was influenced by the Group of Seven artists from the East of Canada, particularly A. Y. Jackson, J.E. H MacDonald and Lawren Harris in Toronto. She was known for her love of the Pacific Coast. As she got older and her health failed, she turned to writing and published several books. She died in 1945.

Baier, Nicolas (1967- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1967-

Born in Montréal in 1967, Nicolas Baier studied at Concordia University. He has shown his work since 1992. He is representd by the René Blouin Gallery ( Montréal) and Jessica Bradley ART + PROJECTS (Toronto). He was awarded in 2000 the Pierre-Ayot Prize, Excellence in Montréal visual art creations, by the Contemporary Art Galleries Association (AGAC) and the Service du développement culturel et de la qualité du milieu de vie de la Ville de Montréal. He lives and works in Montréal.