Marmaduke Matthews
{{Short description|English-Canadian painter}}
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| name = Marmaduke Matthews
| image = Marmaduke M. Matthews, R.C.A. (I0007848).jpg
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| birth_name = Marmaduke Matthews
| birth_date = {{birth date|1837|8|29|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Barcheston, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
| death_date = {{death date and age|1913|9|24|1837|8|29|df=yes}}
| death_place = Toronto, Canada
| nationality = English born-Canadian
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| field = Painter
| training = Cowley School, Oxford, and London University, later, in London, England, with Thomas Miles Richardson Jr., a watercolour artist from Oxford
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Marmaduke Matthews {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (29 August 1837 – 24 September 1913) was an English-Canadian painter, born in Barcheston, Warwickshire, England.[http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=3611 National Gallery of Canada]{{sfn|MacDonald|1967|p=1153}}
Career
Matthews studied watercolour painting at Oxford, England before moving to Toronto, Canada in 1860 to embark on a career as a painter of landscapes. He was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint the Canadian prairies and rocky mountains. He worked for William van Horne, then-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and made several cross-country trips to Canada's west, including in 1887, 1889 and 1892.[http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/Wychwood.htm Lost Rivers: Wychwood Park] He reportedly drew his sketches from the cowcatcher of a locomotive.[http://www.sharecom.ca/wc/matthews.html Canadian Prairie Watercolour Landscapes: Artist Profile of Marmaduke Matthews]
He is also notable for playing a founding role in the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts as a watercolour painter. In Toronto, he is affectionately remembered as the creator of Wychwood Park in 1874 - a plot of land that he once lived on, that became an artists' community and is now one of the higher-income neighbourhoods located northwest of downtown Toronto.
Matthews died in Toronto on 24 September 1913.{{Cite news|date=1913-09-25|title=Marmaduke Matthews Dead|page=1|newspaper=The Gazette|location=Toronto|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47246874/marmaduke-matthews-dead/|access-date=2020-03-23|via=Newspapers.com}} His works are included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario,{{Cite web|title=Wychwood Park|url=https://ago.ca/collection/object/79/238|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Art Gallery of Ontario|language=en}} and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Cattle by the Creek|url=https://rmg.minisisinc.com/m3online/scripts/mwimain.dll/74/1/1/1771?RECORD&DATABASE=M3ONLINE_SEARCH|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-01|website=The Robert McLaughlin Gallery}}
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Colin |title=A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol. 4 |date=1967 |publisher=Paperbacks |location=Ottawa |edition=Third|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=p_work_normalized&Np=1&Ntt=MacDonald%2C%20Colin%20(1967).%20A%20Dictionary%20of%20Canadian%20Artists%20(Third%20ed.).%20Ottawa%3A%20Paperbacks.&Ntk=Anywhere |accessdate=2020-08-05}}
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Category:Province of Canada people
Category:People from Warwickshire (before 1974)