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FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.
DEER HUNTING IN MUSKOKA, 1873
oil on canvas
signed and dated
13 ins x 19 ins; 33 cms x 48.3 cms
Estimate $20,000-$30,000
Realised: $28,800
Price Includes Buyer's Premium
Literature:
"The Exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists", Canadian Illustrated News 7 (3 May 1873). p. 275, reproduced in line p. 276.
Dennis Reid, Our Own Country Canada, Being an Account of the National Aspirations of the Principal Landscape Artists in Montreal and Toronto 1860-1890 (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1979), p. 240.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by W.H. Howland, President of the Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto, May 1873
Laing Galleries, Toronto, February 1968
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibited:
The Exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists, 1873
Art Gallery of Ontario, Collector's Canada, 1988, cat. no. 13.
University of Toronto Art Centre, Beaver Tales: Canadian Art and Design, 16 September - 6 December 2008