John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
{{Short description|Canadian artist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|31 December 1850|31 December 1850}}
| birth_place = Norval, Canada West
| death_date = {{death-date|24 April 1938|24 April 1938}}
| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| field = portrait and landscape painter
| training = studied in Toronto with J. W. Bridgman; Académie Julian, Paris, with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger (1880-1882); Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau; and later with Carolus Duran
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J. W. L. Forster or, more formally, John Wycliffe Lowes Forster {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (31 December 1850 – 24 April 1938) was a Canadian artist specializing in portraits. Many of his works can be found at the National Gallery of Canada.
Career
In Toronto in 1869, he started his art education as a student of portrait painter John Wesley Bridgman (1833–1902). For his portrait of Bridgman, he won first place in the amateur division at the Upper Canada Agricultural Society's annual fair in 1871. In 1879 Forster studied for three months at the South Kensington Art School in London with Canadian landscape painter Charles Stuart Millard (1837-1917). After that, he attended the Académie Julian in Paris, studying with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger (1880-1882); Tony Robert-Fleury and William-Adolphe Bouguereau; and later, with Carolus Duran.{{cite book |last1=Bradfield |first1=Helen |title=Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection Collection |date=1970 |publisher=McGraw Hill |location=Toronto |isbn=0070925046|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/118037 |accessdate=2021-03-31}}
He returned to Toronto in 1883 and was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }} Among his writings are 2 volumes of autobiography and a survey of early Ontario artists.{{cite web |last1=Stacey |first1=Robert |title=John Wycliffe Lowes Forster |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-wycliffe-lowes-forster |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |publisher=Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=2021-04-01}}
Gallery
File:Neas Shaw.jpg|Aeneas Shaw by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|Sir Sandford Fleming (1892) by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
File:Picture of A. W. Austin.jpg|Albert William Austin (1857–1931), Canadian golfer, director of the Dominion Bank, son of James Austin
Works
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| Alexander Mackenzie
| John Wycliffe Lowes Forster | 1897 | Oil on canvas |
| John Sparrow David Thompson
| John Wycliffe Lowes Forster | 1897 | Oil on canvas |
| Robert Franklin Sutherland
| John Wycliffe Lowes Forster | circa 1906 | Oil on canvas |
Notes
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|John Wycliffe Lowes Forster}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930063811/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002920 John Wycliffe Lowes Forster] at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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Category:Canadian portrait painters
Category:19th-century Canadian painters
Category:Canadian male painters
Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:19th-century Canadian male artists