John Poad Drake
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John Poad Drake (1794–1883) was an inventor and artist from Stoke Damerel, in present-day Devon. He worked at the Plymouth Dockyard. He later painted in Halifax, Nova Scotia (1815), Montreal and New York. He later returned to England and patented a new system for drilling screws at the shipyard. He is a descendant of Sir Francis Drake.{{Cite web|url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1145786-at-the-galleries-wave-of-memory-awaits-at-agns|title = Saltwire | Halifax}} Drake was a student of the Royal Academy in London. Drake's painting of the Last Supper hangs in the new Christ Church Cathedral, on St. Catherine Street, Montreal (1825).{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19751004&id=rJcuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lqEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1124,902512|title=The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search}}
Gallery
File:Sampson Salter Blowers.png|Sampson Salter Blowers, Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Links
- [http://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/en/AGNS_Halifax/AboutUs/collection/permanentcollection/collection_highlights/Shipping_at_Low_Tide.aspx Shippling at Low Tide, Halifax, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150220211416/https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/montreal-from-st-helen-s-island/GgGFlnlK6uqCtg?hl=en Montreal from St. Helen's Island], Royal Ontario Museum
- [http://www.erudit.org/culture/cd1035538/cd1042789/8106ac.pdf Montreal]
- [http://www.culturepop.qc.ca/prison/fr/infos-images.php?cx=I081008-6635 Quebec]
References
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- {{cite DNB|wstitle=Drake, John Poad|volume=15}}
- Mechanic's Magazine, lxvii.[https://books.google.com/books?id=RYlfAAAAcAAJ&dq=john+poad+drake&pg=PA242 242, 251–4, 393, 422, 493–5, 538], lxviii. 107, 181, 228, 542, 609, lxix. 61;
- Artisan, May 1852, March 1854;
- Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, xv. 113
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=m_w_AAAAMAAJ&dq=john+poad+drake&pg=PA1160 Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: Comprising a supplementary catalogue of authors .... p. 1160]
- “John Poad Drake (1794-1883): the First Artist to Portray the Hospital”, Montreal General Hospital News 1981, 19(l): 8-9.
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