Laura Adeline Muntz Lyall
(1860 - 1930) OSA, ARCA
Previously Sold Works
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
A Little Girl
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1905 lower right
45 x 30.25 ins ( 114.3 x 76.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $40,000.00 - $60,000.00
Price Realized $43,200.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
The Little Red Head (1903)
watercolour
signed and dated 1903 upper right
12.25 x 8.75 ins ( 31.1 x 22.2 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $10,000.00
Price Realized $14,400.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
Portrait of a Young Girl
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1865, framed as an oval
19.5 x 15 ins ( 49.5 x 38.1 cms ) ( oval )
Auction Estimate: $10,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $12,650.00
Sale date: May 31st 2016
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
Girl in a Dutch Bonnet
oil on canvas
signed and inscribed indistinctly “Paris (?)” and dated 1899 lower right; signed upper left
17 x 14 ins ( 43.2 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $10,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $13,200.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2021
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
Woman in the Field
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1887 lower right
30 x 20 ins ( 76.2 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $7,080.00
Sale date: May 29th 2018
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
Young Girl with Flowers (Elaine)
watercolour
signed lower left; titled and dated 1927 on the gallery and exhibition labels on the reverse
11.5 x 9.75 ins ( 29.2 x 24.8 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $3,600.00
Sale date: December 6th 2023
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
The Handmaiden
watercolour
signed and dated 1900 lower left
19.5 x 10.5 ins ( 49.5 x 26.7 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $2,596.00
Sale date: September 24th 2020
LAURA ADELINE MUNTZ LYALL
The Flower
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1913 lower left; inscribed “Madonna with Jesus and John” and “$550” on the reverse
29.25 x 22 in ( 74.3 x 55.9 cm )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $12,000.00
Sale date: October 22nd 2024
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
A Child in a Garden
watercolour
signed lower left; signed and titled on the reverse
19.75 x 12.75 ins ( 50.2 x 32.4 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $3,360.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
A Helping Hand
watercolour
signed and dated 1905 lower right
19.75 x 13 ins ( 50.2 x 33 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00
Price Realized $2,360.00
Sale date: February 21st 2018
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
A Helping Hand
watercolour
signed and dated 1905 lower right
19.75 x 13 ins ( 50.2 x 33 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $2,400.00
Sale date: February 27th 2024
LAURA ADELINE MUNTZ LYALL
The Breton Sisters
double-sided pastel
signed lower right; with a sketch of a young boy holding a baby on the reverse
11.25 x 11 ins ( 28.6 x 27.9 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $2,040.00
Sale date: March 26th 2024
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
Coastal Scene, Sunset
oil on canvas
titled and dated 1921 to a gallery label on the reverse
15 x 18 ins ( 38.1 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $720.00
Sale date: February 27th 2024
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
Coastal Scene, Sunset, 1921
oil on canvas
titled and dated on a gallery label on the reverse
15 x 18 ins ( 38.1 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $649.00
Sale date: January 28th 2020
LAURA ADELINE LYALL MUNTZ
Portrait of a Girl
pastel
signed and dated 1911 lower right
16 x 16 ins ( 40.6 x 40.6 cms ) ( sight )
Price Realized $450.00
Sale date: August 31st 2023
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Laura Muntz Lyall Biography
(1860 - 1930) OSA, ARCA
Born at Radford, Warwickshire, England, the daughter of Eugene Gustavus Muntz, she came to Canada as a child with her family and they settled on a farm in the backwoods of the Muskoka District. She didn't begin formal art training until the age of twenty-three. She became a school teacher in Hamilton, Ontario, and in her spare hours took art classes.
With money saved from her teaching job she studies for a short time at the South Kensington School of Art, England about 1887. She returned to Canada and spent the next seven years earning money for study in Paris. In Paris, she studied at the Academie Colorossi under Joseph Le Blanc and others and she received Honourable Mention at the Paris Salon in 1895. She also travelled in Holland and Italy and at the end of seven years returned to Toronto and opened a studio. She was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1895. She left Toronto and resided in Montreal where she continued to paint. Her canvas “A Daffodil” (a portrait of a girl holding a daffodil) was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in 1910.
In 1915 she married Charles WB Lyall and returned to Toronto. She began signing her canvases Laura Muntz Lyall and even applied her signature to works she had done earlier so that each signature appeared on the canvas in opposite corners. For a period, her married life occupied most of her time and her painting activities almost ceased. Mention of her return to painting was recorded in the Toronto “Sunday World” by Irene Hare as follows, “Miss Lyall was one of our most indefatigable painters before the urge of other domestic duties took so much of her time that her painting was, to a certain extent, neglected. But her great number of admirers are delighted that she has again taken up her brush in earnest, and is very busy indeed at her 'attic' studio at her home. She has three large and very lovely pictures in process. All have little ones for their subject. One is s two beautiful children gambolling in a wood. The figures seem to melt in a hazy atmosphere of bronze and green at the same time imaginative and compelling. Two other small nude figures are disporting themselves along the sea-shore, in a glow of light and colour, the soft blues of the back-ground being particularly suitable for the fairy-like forms. In another still, the mother forms the keynote of the picture, with three beautiful child figures grouped about her....She is an enthusiastic painter. 'My hobbies' she will laughingly say, 'are only two-- painting and children. I don't know which I am fondest of.'”
She passed away in Toronto at the age of 70 and was survived by her husband, and a brother GH Muntz. It is not certain is there were other relatives. She is represented in the following collections: Art Gallery of Ontario; Parliament Buildings, Victoria, BC; Vancouver Art Gallery; National Gallery of Canada, and elsewhere including many private collections.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume I: A-F", compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1977