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Fishing at Montmorency Falls, The Artist in the Foreground by William Armstrong

Artwork by William Armstrong, Fishing at Montmorency Falls, The Artist in the Foreground

William Armstrong
Fishing at Montmorency Falls, The Artist in the Foreground

watercolour
signed and dated 1866 lower right
17 x 12.5 ins ( 43.2 x 31.8 cms ) ( sight )

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Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto

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William Armstrong
(1822 - 1914) ARCA

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William Armstrong was an artist and a civil engineer in the 1850s, based in Toronto as drawing master at the Toronto Normal School. He regularly exhibited at The Ontario Society of Artists and The Royal Canadian Academy. The artist sold Indian sketches to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Newcastle. Working as a railway engineer he painted scenes of Manitoulin Indians, Lake Superior, Fort William, Plains and Foothills Indians. A.R.C.A. in 1882. He was one of Canada\'s early explorer artists.