Marmaduke Matthews

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

Marmaduke Matthews
Born	Marmaduke Matthews (1837-08-29)29 August 1837 Barcheston, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Died	24 September 1913(1913-09-24) (aged 76) Toronto, Canada
Nationality	British, Canadian
Education	Cowley School,Oxford, and London University, later, in London, England, with Thomas Miles Richardson Jr., a watercolour artist from Oxford[1]
Known for	Painting

He studied watercolour painting at Oxford, England before moving to Toronto, Canada in 1860 to embark on a career as an esteemed painter of western landscapes. He was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint the Canadian prairies and rocky mountains. He worked under 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 train.[4]

He died in Toronto on 24 September 1913.[5]

Projects

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 - a plot of land that he once lived on, that became an artists` community and is now one of the higher-income neighbourhoods in Toronto.[6]

References

1. MacDonald 1967, p. 1153.
2. National Gallery of Canada
3. 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. Lost Rivers: Wychwood Park

Bibliography

• MacDonald, Colin (1967). A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol. 4 (Third ed.). Ottawa: Paperbacks. Retrieved 5 August 2020.