Pines; Landscape with Cows by Harry Britton
Harry Britton
Pines; Landscape with Cows
“Pines” (gouache on card, signed lower left, titled to exhibition label on the reverse, overall 11.25 x 8.75 ins);
“Landscape with Cows” (oil on canvas, laid down on board, signed lower right, 9.5 x 12 ins);
each unframed
9.5 x 12 ins ( 24.1 x 30.5 cms ) ( largest )
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Private Collection, Port Perry, ON
Department of Watercolours, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, 1940 for “Pines”
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Harry Britton
(1878 - 1958)
Born at Cambridge, England, he came to Canada in 1881 and after 1902 he studied in Toronto under F. McGillivray Knowles and at Heatherley’s School of Art, London, and the London Art School. He painted portraits, landscapes and marinescapes in impressionistic and realistic styles. He visited St. Ives in 1912 and lived in Nova Scotia, 1925-34, returning to Toronto about 1935 where he lived until his death. E. F. B. Johnston described him as an artist with “matured conceptions”. He exhibited at the Art Association of Montreal, the Royal Canadian Academy, and elsewhere. He is represented in the National Gallery of Canada. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy (ARCA 1908) (RCA 1934).
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume I: A-F", compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1977
