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PROVENANCE
Galerie d'art Michel Bigué, Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts
Private Collection, Montreal

Frederick Arthur Verner was born in 1836 in Hammondsville, Ontario, then the Province of Upper Canada. At the age of sixteen, Verner won a drawing prize for works exhibited at the Upper Canada Provincial Art Exhibition and met artist Paul Kane, whom he admired. In 1856, he went to London where he studied art at the Hetherleys Academy of Arts in South Kensignton and joined the British Army. After his return to Canada in 1862, he settled in Toronto and worked as a photograph colorist and as a photographer while continuing to develop his artistic skills. In the year 1873, Verner traveled to Upper Fort Gary (now Winnipeg) and joined Lieutenant Alexander Morris’ expedition to the North West Territories to negotiate a treaty with the Indigenous at Northwest Angle, Lake of the Woods. During this trip, Verner produced numerous sketches of the prairies and Indigenous encampments. These drawings served as an inspiration for some of his most accomplished works. The present selection of five exceptional watercolours from an important Montreal collection are prime examples of Verner’s draftsmanship and distinctive vision of the west.

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