initialed H.W. lower left
titled with label to verso, Horatio Walker Estate stamp to verso
Provenance
Private collection, Toronto;
Sale of Heffel Fine Art, August 30, 2018, lot 223;
Private collection, Calgary
Exhibited
Pictures, Studies and Sketches by Horatio Walker, Montross Gallery, New York, 1915, catalogue no. 23, label to verso;
RCA, AWCS, NAD, RI, RSC, SAA (1858-1938) Born in Listowel, Ontario, Walker was a self-taught painter influenced by the Barbizon School, France, Jean Millet and Homer Watson. He was introduced to painting by John A. Fraser, Henry Sandham, Lucius O’Brien and Henri Perré while working at the Notman photography studio,…
RCA, AWCS, NAD, RI, RSC, SAA (1858-1938)
Born in Listowel, Ontario, Walker was a self-taught painter influenced by the Barbizon School, France, Jean Millet and Homer Watson. He was introduced to painting by John A. Fraser, Henry Sandham, Lucius O’Brien and Henri Perré while working at the Notman photography studio, Toronto, Ontario (1873-1876). Working in oil, watercolour, pastel, pencil and charcoal, he is best known for his Quebec farm scenes with figures and animals such as oxen, horses, pigs and turkeys. His subjects also include portraits, landscape, and genre habitant scenes. He travelled and painted in the United States (1876, New York City 1878, 1914-1918); and in Quebec City (1883), and Sainte-Pétronille, Ile d’Orleans, Quebec (1896, 1909-1913, 1919-1938) where he died. He also visited England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Africa, the Near East, and Russia (1880-1882). He was a founder of the Canadian Art Club and its President in 1915, and received an honorary doctorate from Laval University, Quebec City in 1938. He held solo exhibitions with the AGO in 1915 and 1929, and exhibited with the RCA in 1901-1921, and the AAM in 1901.
