Marmaduke Matthews

Marmaduke Matthews RCA (29 August 1837 – 24 September 1913) was an English-Canadian painter, born in Barcheston, Warwickshire, England.^[1][2]

Wychwood Park (c. 1895)

Marmaduke Matthews
Born	Marmaduke Matthews (1837-08-29)29 August 1837 Barcheston, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Died	24 September 1913(1913-09-24) (aged 76) Toronto, Canada
Nationality	English born-Canadian
Education	Cowley School, Oxford, and London University, later, in London, England, with Thomas Miles Richardson Jr., a watercolour artist from Oxford
Known for	Painter

Career

Matthews studied watercolour painting at Oxford, England before moving to Toronto, Canada in 1860 to embark on a career as a painter of landscapes. He was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint the Canadian prairies and rocky mountains. He worked for William van Horne, then-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and made several cross-country trips to Canada's west, including in 1887, 1889 and 1892.^[3] He reportedly drew his sketches from the cowcatcher of a locomotive.^[4]

He is also notable for playing a founding role in the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts as a watercolour painter. In Toronto, he is affectionately remembered as the creator of Wychwood Park in 1874 - a plot of land that he once lived on, that became an artists' community and is now one of the higher-income neighbourhoods located northwest of downtown Toronto.^[3]

Matthews died in Toronto on 24 September 1913.^[5] His works are included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada,^[1] the Art Gallery of Ontario,^[6] and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.^[7]