Falls of Montmorency, St. Lawrence c. 1838 by George Russell Dartnell
George R. Dartnell
Falls of Montmorency, St. Lawrence c. 1838
watercolour heightened with white
signed and titled on the reverse; signed and titled on a label on the reverse, dated c. 1838 on a gallery label on the reverse;
sold together with “Posted to Canada: The Watercolours of George Russell Dartnell 1835-1844” (Honor De Pencier, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1987)
10 x 13 ins ( 25.4 x 33 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $4,012.00
Sale date: September 29th 2020
Collection of Rose and Louis Melzack
Sotheby’s Canada, Important Canadian Art auction, Toronto, 24 May 2000, Lot 130
Private Collection
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal
Posted to Canada: The Watercolours of George Russell Dartnell 1835-1844, Royal Ontario Museum, September 26, 1987 - February 28, 1988, no. 90
Honor De Pencier, “Posted to Canada: The Watercolours of George Russell Dartnell 1835-1844”, Toronto, 1987, reproduced page 54, no. 90
The date of this work is unknown, but it was probably sketched during the winter of 1838-1839, just before Dartnell’s posting to Montreal in the spring of 1839.
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George Russell Dartnell
(1799 - 1878)
Born in Ireland, Limerick in 1799, George Russell Dartnell was a British army surgeon stationed in Canada from 1835 to 1844. Dartnell, an accomplished and popular surgeon, sketched more than 150 scenes of Canada’s dense forests, clear lakes and rough-edged beauty during his nine-year posting – all of which form an important part of Canada's pre-photographic visual history.
Source: Honour De Pencier, “Posted to Canada: The Watercolours of George Russell Dartnell 1835-1844”, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1987
