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Montreal Notes on the Relationship of
Photography and Painting in Canada, 1860-1900
by Ann Thomas
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1 Van Deren Coke, "The Use
of Photographs by
Artists," lecture at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York,
27 November 1970.
Colgate, The Art Students' League (Toronto:
Ryerson Press, 1954), p. 2. "The New Society [Ontario Society
of Artists] had for its promoters a group of painters living in
Toronto and employed by Notman and Fraser, a firm of photographers,
whose portraits formed on a photographic base gave employment to a
number of artists who later became celebrated for less dubious forms
3 Lindquist-Cock, "Stereoscopic Photography and the Western
Paintings of Albert Bierstadt," Art Quarterly, vol. 33,
no.4 (Winter 1970), p. 378, n. 38.
4 The Report on the Products and Manufacture of Ontario at the
International Exhibition Philadelphia 1876 (Toronto: Queen's
Printer, 1877), p. 219. Xerox copy in Notman archives.
5 Ibid., p. 378.
6 Untitled newspaper clipping in the file on J. A. Fraser, Art
Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
7 J. Russell Harper, Early Painters and Engravers in Canada (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1970), p. 100.
8 Elizabeth Collard, " A Forgotten Artist - Samuel Hawksett,"
Canadian Antiques Collector,
vol. 3, no. 12 (December 1968),
9 Photographic journals carried articles on overpainting in both
watercolours and oils. A .S. and A. I. Heath, A New Treatise on
Photography (New York: Heath and Brother, 1855), states that
oils require that the base-photograph be mounted on mill-board or
canvas and that it be oiled carefully before the application of
10 Moncrieff Williamson, Robert Harris 1849-1919, An
Unconventional Biography (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,
1970), p. 27.
11 Cyril Robinson, "He painted the Face of Canada," Weekend
Magazine, vol. 15, no. II (13 March 1965), pp. 22, 23.
12 Personal scrap-book of George A. Reid, Art Gallery of Ontario,
13 File for Paul Peel in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts notes
that Peel studied under Eakins.
14 Albert Bierstadt worked in an advisory capacity with his
brothers, the photographers Charles and Edward. Lindquist-Cock, op.
cit., pp. 364, 365, n. 3.
15 Another of Peel's paintings, Portrait of a Young Boy, in
the London Public Library and Art Museum, has an inscription I.
r., "from photo." In a letter to James Spooner in
1882, now in the library of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Peel wrote:
"I have not made any copies since 1878 nor do I intend to
only under commission [sic]."
16 "Photography on Canvas," Photographic News, vol.
7, no. 227 (9 January 1863), p. 23.
17 "Photography on Canvas," Photographic News, vol.
7, no.228 (16 January 1863), p. 35.
18 "Photographs on Canvas," American Journal of
Photography, vol. I, no.9 (I October 1858), p. 139.
19 Letter from Homer Watson to James Spooner, dated 29 December
1885, in the Ontario Archives.
20 "Art in Canada," Canadian Monthly, vol. 3
(January 1873), p. 262.
21 "Mr Sawyer's Art and Photographic Studio," The
Gazette (Montreal), vol. CI, no.21 (24 January 1872), p. 2,
22 "Notes by C.F. Notman Regarding the Establishment of the
Firm, Wm. Notman and Son, photographers" (unpublished notes
in the Notman Archives, McCord Museum, Montreal), MS p. 2.
"During the years many fine artists were on the staff amongst
them O. R. Jacoby [sic] John Hammond, Jas. Weston, O. Sharpe
Vought [sic], Eugene L'Africain, G. Horne Russell and C.
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