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William Brymner

William Brymner (1857 - 1925) was active/lived in Quebec, Ontario / Canada, Australia, Scotland.  William Brymner is known for Landscape, portrait and figure painting, teaching.

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William Brymner was a painter, draftsman, muralist, illustrator and very influential Canadian art educator.  He was born in Greenlock, Scotland.  In 1857 his family emigrated to Melbourne, Quebec, 100 miles east of Montreal.  They moved to Montreal in 1864, and then to Ottawa, Ontario in 1872.  Montreal was, again, his home in 1886 and for the rest of his life.  He died while visiting Wallasey, Cheshire, England.
 
His mediums were oil, watercolour, charcoal, pastel, ink, graphite, and mixed mediums.  His subjects were figures in landscape, landscapes, nudes, interiors, figures, genre and portraits.  The locations of the landscapes include the St. Lawrence River valley, the Canadian Rockies, Nova Scotia, the Blackfoot Indian Reserve (Gleichen, Alberta), the Selkirk Mountains (British Columbia), Italy, England, France and Belgium.

He is considered one of the Canadian pioneers of Impressionism*.  His w   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8119 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for William Brymner


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Atmospherics, Dramatic Lighting
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Interior Scenes
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Nude Figure, Nudity
  • Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • England, London Great Britain After 1900
  • Europe
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
  • Art Association of Montreal (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
  • Canadian Art Club, Toronto
  • Montreal Water Colour Society
  • Ontario Society of Artists
  • Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal
  • Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Elected Member
  • The Arts Club, Montreal Arts Club
Art Teacher
  • Charles Carolus-Duran Atelier
  • Charles Francois Pinot
  • Gustave Boulanger
  • Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
  • Tony Robert-Fleury
  • William Bouguereau
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • Montreal Art Association, Teacher
  • Ottawa School of Art, Teacher
  • School of the Art Association of Montreal, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • Jessie Dow Prize, Montreal Art Association
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Watson Art Galleries, Montreal
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
  • Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901
  • Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, National Gallery
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Art Association of Montreal/Montreal Museum of Fine Art
  • Canadian Art Club, Toronto-
  • Ontario Society of Artists-
  • Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
  • The Arts Club, Montreal Arts Club-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Agnes Etherington Art Centre
  • Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts)
  • Art Gallery of Toronto (Art Gallery of Ontario)
  • Edmonton Art Gallery/Art Gallery of Alberta
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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