Artist Frederick Arthur Verner
Title Buffaloes
Media watercolour on paper
Dated
1876
Size 11.5 x 20 in. / 29.2 x 50.8 cm.
Frame Size 24 x 32.5 x 2.25 in.
Estimate $6,000 - $8,000
Notes
signed and dated lower right; framed with special glass; small tear [1.5 in] in paper lower right
Reference
'Prior to his trip west, the artist was making a living as a photographer but by 1874 because of the popularity of his work, Verner was able to call himself an artist in the city census', page 63 in The Last Buffalo: The Work of Frederick Arthur Verner, Painter of the Northwest by Joan Murray, published by Pagurian Press, 1984
Provenance
ex-collection Dr. Joan Snyder; from a Calgary estate
Biographical Information
Frederick Arthur Verner ~ [1836-1928] Canadian OSA, RCA
Born in 1836, Frederick A. Verner traveled to England in 1856 to study art at the South Kensington School of Art. While in England he served for the British army. Upon his return to Canada in 1862 he opened a studio in Toronto. During his time spent in Canada he painted many fine portrais of native people as well as native scenes and landscapes. Although Paul Kane was much older, they became close friends in the artist's later uears and it is thought by some that Verner replace Kane as Canada's most accoplished artist at the time. Verner was well exhibited throughout his life; showing with the RCA from its founding in 1880 until 1927, and with the OSA until 1911. He also exhibited with the Art Association of Montreal from 1872 to 1922. Verner even exhibited his scenes of Canada with Buffalo Bill's show in London. See The Last Buffalo, by J.Murray, Pagurian Press, 1984 as well as N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg. 324; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.494; biography in Early Painters and Engravers in Canada, by J. Russell Harper, pg.316, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1970; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.83, Westbridge Pub., 2003; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.412 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.386; Westbridge,Vol.4, pg.83