John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
Canadian artist
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J. W. L. Forster or, more formally, John Wycliffe Lowes Forster RCA (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.
J. W. L. Forster | |
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John Wycliffe Lowes Forster | |
| Born | December 31, 1850 |
| Died | April 24, 1934 (aged 83) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Education | 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 |
| Known for | portrait and landscape painter |
| Notable work | portrait of James Whiteside, Toronto |
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.[1]
He returned to Toronto in 1883 and was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[2] Among his writings are 2 volumes of autobiography and a survey of early Ontario artists.[3]
Gallery
Aeneas Shaw by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
Sir Sandford Fleming (1892) by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
Albert William Austin (1857–1931), Canadian golfer, director of the Dominion Bank, son of James Austin
Works
| Title/subject | Date created |
|---|---|
| William P. Caven | circa 1883[4] |
| Sir Sandford Fleming | 1892 |
| John Beverley Robinson | 1895[4] |
| Alexander Mackenzie | 1897 |
| John Sparrow David Thompson | 1897 |
| Susanna Annesley | circa 1900 |
| John Wesley | circa 1900 |
| Charles Wesley | circa 1900 |
| Aeneas Shaw | circa 1902 |
| Robert Franklin Sutherland | circa 1906 |
| Sir John A. Macdonald | |
| Robert Baldwin | |
| William Lyon Mackenzie | |
| John Graves Simcoe | |
| Sir Isaac Brock | |
| James Wolfe | |
| Christopher Finlay Fraser | |
| Albert William Austin | |
| George McDougall | |
| James Henderson | |
| Alfred Gandier | |
| George Cochran | |
| William Gooderham Jr. | |
| Samuel S. Nelles | |
| Nathanael Burwash | |
| Margaret (Hopkins) Cox | |
| Alexander Sutherland | |
| John Potts | |
| George A. Cox | |
| W.E.H. Massey | |
| Hart A. Massey | |
| Egerton Ryerson |
