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Sir Edmund Wyly Grier PRCA POSA (1862-1957)

Title: “Senator James Kirkpatrick Kerr”

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Period: Dated 1933

Size: 19” x 23”

Comments: The sitter was born in 1841 and died in 1916. Sen. Kerr was a Liberal Speaker of the Senate from January 14, 1909 until October 22, 1911 during the Sir Wilfred Laurier government. He was also the Most Worshipful the Grand Master, Bro. James Kirkpatrick Kerr, Q.C., Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario. This painting was copied from miniature by Sir Wyly Grier PRCA, 1933.  

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Wyly Grier was elected President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1929), President of the Ontario Society of Artists (1908-1913). In 1908 he became a founding member of the Arts and Letters Club and served as it’s first Vice President. He was knighted in 1935 while still president of the RCA. In 1938 he was commissioned by the Nova Scotia Government to clean and restore the portraits in Province House, Halifax. These paintings were deemed “the most valuable oils in the country” by Saturday Night magazine and included paintings which were damaged in the Halifax explosion. His portraits date from 1888 to 1947 when he retired at the age of 85. His paintings are in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Province House in Halifax as well as countless public and private collections.

 

He was born in Melourne Australia. At a young age, he and his family moved to Bristol, England. In 1876, he moved to Canada and enrolled at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Upon graduation, he attended the Slade School of Art in London. In 1881 he went to Rome and studied at the Scuola Libera and later attended evening classes at the British Academy. Following this, upon the advice of a friend, he studied at the prestigious Academie Julian in Paris. He began to exhibit his paintings at the Royal British Academy in 1886 and again in 1889, 1890, 1892 and 1895. In 1890 he won a Gold Medal at the Paris Salon. He returned to Toronto in 1891 and opened a studio there as a portrait painter. In 1901, he won a silver medal at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo. From 1897-1903 he served with the Royal Canadian Artillery and rose to the rank of Major in command of the 9th Field Battery. In 1903 he became the Vice President of the Canadian Military Institute.

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