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Sir
Edmund Wyly Grier PRCA POSA (1862-1957)
Title:
“Robert Warren Kerr”
Medium:
Oil on Canvas
Period:
Dated 1933
Size:
19” x 23”
Comments:
The sitter was born near Sligo Ireland, 1810 and died at Hamilton, Ontario in
1872. 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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