Frederick Arthur Verner
Visual Artist
1836 – 1928
Who was Frederick Arthur Verner?
Frederick Arthur Verner was a Canadian painter, famous for his landscape and scenery paintings from the Canadian plains in the west.
Verner was born at Sheridan, Ontario, which was then called Hammondsville, in Upper Canada. Already as a boy, he was fascinated and inspired by the paintings of Paul Kane and tried to convince this established painter to take him on as a pupil, but was turned away. A few years later, he went to London, where he studied at Hetherleys Academy of Arts from 1856 to 1860, before joining the British army, enlisting in the 3rd West York regiment. He returned to Toronto in 1862, where he worked first as a photograph colorist and then as a photographer himself. During this time, he became a friend of his long-time idol Paul Kane. Verner's work is, like Kane's, also focused on scenes from the Canadian west and also sometimes based on field sketches, although Verner didn't travel as extensively as Kane had done. Many of his paintings are based on sketches made when he accompagnied Alexander Morris to the signing of the third Northwest Angle Treaty at Lake of the Woods in 1873.
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