Lucius O'Brien (1832-1899) Commemorative plaque, 1988.
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Resource ID
6148
Access
Open
Address
30 College Street, Toronto, ON M5G 1K2
Credit Line
Heritage Toronto
Date of Creation
1988
Historical Themes
Program Category
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Heritage Toronto
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Caption
Lucius O'Brien (1832-1899) Commemorative plaque, 1988.
Description
Here, from 1881 to 1987, stood the home of Lucius O'Brien, one of our foremost painters and a leader in the development of Canada's artistic life. Born in Shanty Bay, Ontario, O'Brien practiced as a civil engineer before becoming a full time painter in 1872. His expansive light-filled water-colours and oils depicting an heroic Canadian landscape won him wide acclaim here and abroad. His most famous work, and a key painting of the era, remains the majestic "Sunrise on the Saguenay", of 1880. In that year O'Brien began a ten-year presidency of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts which he helped to found. Later he was instrumental in the publication of "Picturesque Canada" whose 500 engravings revealed to many the variety and vastness of the young nation.
Marker lat / long: 43.661074, -79.384531 (WGS84)