William George Richardson Hind (Canadian 1833-1889)
Mission Church, Seven Islands, July 11th
watercolour
Painter and illustrator William Hind produced sketches and paintings of early Canada. Born in Nottingham, England he spent the greater part of his life living in Canada. This watercolour depicts Seven Islands which was the location of a mission and Hudson's Bay post, located beside Moisie in the north eastern region of Quebec. In 1861 William met his brother Henry in Montreal and joined his exploration party as expedition artist, producing hundreds of sketches on the journey. Many of his sketches of the landscape and customs of the local Naskapi and Montagnais were used as woodcut illustrations in Henry’s published report of the journey “Explorations in the interior of the Labrador peninsula” in 1863. These sketches were also the foundation for a group of larger watercolour works completed upon the return to Toronto. 16 of which were also used as coloured lithographs in the same report.
Size: 7 h x 12 ½ w in (with frame 14 h x 19 ¼ w in)
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