George Agnew Reid, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Agnew Reid

Canadian artist

Date of Birth: 25-Jul-1860

Place of Birth: Wingham, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 23-Aug-1947

Profession: painter

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Leo

George Agnew Reid (July 25, 1860 – August 23, 1947) was a Canadian artist and painter and is best known as a genre painter. Trained at the Central Ontario School of Art, Toronto in 1879, where he studied with Robert Harris; studied at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1882 to 1885 where he was a protégé of Thomas Eakins.
He met his first wife artist Mary Hiester Reid at the Pennsylvania Academy and remained with her until her death in 1921.
He also studied at the Julian, with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and at the Colarossi Academies in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid (1888–89).
He made a number of study trips to Europe, during which he visited France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
It was during this time that Reid turned from portraiture to genre, as in The Foreclosure of the Mortgage (1893), making his name with narrative pictures.
Reid brought Parisian Academy precision to emotional genre paintings of Ontario. He was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1889, and was principal of the Central Ontario School of Art and Design (later OCAD University) 1912-18.
He also did murals and private and public commissions, including one for Toronto's Third City Hall.
In 1922, he married fellow artist Mary E.
Wrinch..
George Agnew Reid died in 1947, leaving behind a body of work that often depicts scenes from his rural Ontario upbringing, with much of his work now found in public and private collections.



Alternative names	George A. Reid; George Reid
Description	Canadian artist and painter Genre works
Date of birth/death	25 July 1860	23 August 1947
Location of birth/death	Wingham	Toronto
Authority control	: Q3101368 VIAF: 18708433 ISNI: 0000 0000 8204 375X ULAN: 500030167 LCCN: n86122867 Open Library: OL4692554A WorldCat