Paul Peel

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Self-Portrait ( National Gallery of Canada )

Paul Peel (born November 7, 1860 in London (Ontario) , † October 3, 1892 in Paris ) was a Canadian painter.

His work is committed to academic art .

In 1890 he won a bronze medal at the Salon de Paris with the work After the bath and thus became one of the first Canadian artists to achieve world fame during his lifetime. He died of a lung disease at the age of 32.

Some works

  • Devotion (1881)
  • Mother and Child (1888)
  • The Young Botanist (1888–1890)
  • A Venetian Bather 1889
  • Portrait of Gloria Roberts (1889)
  • After the Bath (1890)
  • Robert Andre Peel (ca.1892)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Newlands, Anne. Canadian Paintings, Prints, and Drawings. Firefly Books, 2007. Page 240-41. ISBN 1-55407-290-5

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Peel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH London (Ontario)
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1892
Place of death Paris