George Agnew Reid
| George Agnew Reid | |
|---|---|
 Arrival of Samuel Champlain at the future site of Quebec City | |
| Born |
July 25, 1860 Wingham, Canada West |
| Died |
August 23, 1947 (aged 87) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | |
| Known for | genre painter |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Hiester Reid |
George Agnew Reid (July 25, 1860 – August 23, 1947 in ) was a Canadian artist and painter and is best known as a genre painter.
Trained at the Central Ontario School of Art, Toronto in 1879, where he studied with Robert Harris; studied at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1882 to 1885 where he was a protégé of Thomas Eakins and met his future wife Mary Hiester Reid. He also studied at the Julian, with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and at the Colarossi Academies in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid (1888–89). He made a number of study trips to Europe, during which he visited France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. It was during this time that Reid turned from portraiture to genre, as in The Foreclosure of the Mortgage (1893), making his name with narrative pictures. Reid brought Parisian Academy precision to emotional genre paintings of Ontario.
He was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[1] in 1889, and was principal of the Central Ontario School of Art and Design (later Ontario College of Art and Design) 1912-18. He also did murals and private and public commissions, including one for Toronto's Third City Hall.
Notes
- ↑ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
References
- George Agnew Reid in the Canadian Encyclopedia
- Biography in Canada's Virtual Museum
- George Agnew Reid listed in the Art History Archive
External links
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Media related to George Agnew Reid at Wikimedia Commons
| Cultural offices | ||
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| Preceded by Robert Harris |
President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 1906-1909 |
Succeeded by William Brymner |