Marmaduke Matthews, British born Canadian citizen (1837 - 1913)

Marmaduke Matthews was born on August 29, 1837 in Barcheston, Warwickshire, England.
He died on September 24, 1913, in Toronto, Canada.

He studied watercolor painting at Oxford University, and at London University in England. After he completed his education in art he found employment with a London-based German publishing company. In 1860, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto. In 1864, he married Canadian citizen, Cyrilda Bernard. They had four children, a son, Marmaduke Ernest, and three daughters, Alice, Barbara, and Cyrilda.

From 1865 until 1869, the Matthews family lived in New York City. In 1874, together with businessman Alexander Jardine, Marmaduke established an artist’s community in Canada. Marmaduke named the community Wychwood Park, after Wych­wood Forest which bordered his home in Oxfordshire, England.

Marmaduke Matthews was a Charter Member of The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and President of the Ontario Society of Artists. He had a fair number of notable patrons including the Marquis of Lorne, Sir George Drummond, Lord Mount Stephen, and Lord Strathcona.

In 1875, he promoted himself as a portrait painter and continued to do so for eleven years following. However, Marmaduke Matthews is chiefly known as a landscape painter, usually in watercolors, less frequently in oils.

In 1880, Marmaduke Matthews authored a book titled Cloud-Bound: An Artist’s Experience in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

In 1888, William Van Horne, president of The Canadian Pacific Railway and avid art collector, commissioned several artists, including Marmaduke Matthews, to a ten-year project sketching the landscape along the railway west.
Artist, Marmaduke Matthews.

The art of Marmaduke Matthews is or has been exhibited and/or offered for sale in museums, galleries, auction houses, universities, and by independent art dealers including but not necessarily limited to the following:
1893 World’s Fair, Chicago, IL                                         
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Art Market Spot, Hamilton, ON, Canada                             
Caldecott Art, Niagara on the Lake, ON, Canada
Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto, ON, Canada                          
Collectors' Gallery of Art, Calgary, AB, Canada
Cowley Abbott, Toronto, ON, Canada                                
Cutler Bay Auctions, Cutler Bay, FL
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, Canada                            
Heffel Auctions, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Heritage Antiques Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada                  
Hodgins Art Auctions, Calgary, AB, Canada
Iridescent Antiques, Vancouver, WA                                 
John A. Libby Fine Art, Toronto, ON, Canada
Joyner Canadian Fine Art Auction, Toronto, ON, Canada      
Kaspar Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Kavanagh Auctions, Montreal, QB, Canada                         
Levis Auction, Calgary, AB, Canada
Little Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada                                
MacKenzie & Co. Fine Pictures, Toronto, ON, Canada
Maynards Fine Art & Antiques, Richmond, BC, Canada        
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
One Source Auctions, Canandaigua, NY                             
Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Phoebus Auction Gallery, Hampton, VA                             
Rariora Gallery, London, England
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, Canada               
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada                     
Saskatchewan Art Collecting, Regina, SK, Canada
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, MA                                        
Sloans & Kenyon, Chevy Chase, MD
Thielsen Galleries, London, England                                  
University of Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Vancouver City Museum, Vancouver, BC, Canada               
Waddington’s Auctioneers, Toronto, ON, Canada
Walker's Auctions, Ottawa, ON, Canada                             
Westbridge Fine Art, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB, Canada