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

George Russell Dartnell

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2026

Part of the Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, From Goat’s Island

Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, From Bottom of Table Rock, 1838

Old Saw Mill on the Thames Near Delaware

On the St. Lawrence Near Longueuil

Floating Ice On the St. Lawrence, Montreal

On the Genessee River from the Level of the Fall Near Rochester NY

2020

Falls of Montmorency, St. Lawrence c. 1838

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