Artwork by Lucius Richard O'Brien,  Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, 1893

Lucius O’Brien
Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, 1893

watercolour over graphite and laid down on card
signed and dated 1893 at centre of left side
26.25 x 15.75 in ( 66.7 x 40 cm ) ( sight )

Auction Estimate: $5,000.00$3,000.00 - $5,000.00

Price Realized $3,120.00
Sale date: November 19th 2024

Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibited:
"From Ocean to Ocean: Nineteenth Century Water Colour Painting in Canada", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978, no. 27
Literature:
Jeremy Adamson, "From Ocean to Ocean: Nineteenth Century Water Colour Painting in Canada", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978, no. 27, reproduced page 17, listed page 20

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Lucius Richard O'Brien
(1832 - 1899) OSA, PRCA

Lucius O'Brien was born in 1832 in Shanty Bay, Ontario. He studied at Upper Canada College and worked as a civil engineer until 1872 at which time he devoted himself to painting. O'Brien excelled at landscape painting, both in oil and watercolour, and his subject matter spans locations across the country. O'Brien served as vice-president to the Ontario Society of Artists, was the founding president of the Royal Canadian Academy (1880), and contributed a large number of drawings to Picturesque Canada (1882) of which he was the editor.