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    • Henri Perre (Canada,1828-1890) watercolor painting antique
      Aug. 21, 2022

      Henri Perre (Canada,1828-1890) watercolor painting antique

      Est: $450 - $600

      ARTIST: Henri Perre (Canadian, 1828 - 1890) NAME: Landscape MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Minor age toning. Framed under glass. Some damages to frame. SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 20 inches / 30 x 50 cm FRAME SIZE: 22 x 28 inches / 55 x 71 cm SIGNATURE: lower left CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 121489 US Shipping $75 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: PERRE (Perri), HENRI, landscape painter and art teacher; b. probably in 1824 or 1825 in Strasbourg, France, of French and Prussian parents; d. unmarried 17 June 1890 in Toronto, Ont.Henri Perre studied art in Dresden (German Democratic Republic) before being forced to flee to the United States after fighting in the 1849 uprisings in Saxony. References to his American career are primarily anecdotes of his friends who related that he had lived the life of a confirmed bachelor in the Carolinas, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Chicago before fighting in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He had made a brief visit to Toronto in 1854 and moved there in 1863. Perre, described by Canadian friends as eccentric but popular, lived in Toronto for much of the balance of his life, in the city's downtown district and for a time in the quarters of the Ontario Society of Artists.Principally a landscape artist, he not only painted in the Don valley and the Toronto environs but also made numerous sketching trips by railway: to Ancaster, Dundas, and Preston, Ont., in 1874 and 1881; to Bic and Matapedia, Que., in 1882; as well as to Muskoka and Owen Sound, Ont. However, during 1877-78 he visited Philadelphia, with fellow artist John Wesley Bridgman, and painted along the Schuylkill and Shenandoah rivers. Titles of his paintings indicate that in 1878 he visited Colorado and California at the time when Thomas Moran and other American artists were discovering the west, and several British Columbia views suggest that he went north from California to sketch there before that province had been linked to central Canada by rail. Perre's rural landscapes, primarily in oil and water-colour, are usually modest in size, with the exception of the large Niagara Falls. His realistic style is allied to that of the late Hudson River school of painters and other contemporary American landscapists. Despite his large output (approximately 150 works were exhibited at Ontario Society of Artists and Royal Canadian Academy exhibitions between 1874 and 1889), few are now in public collections. His academy diploma work, Landscape (in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa), and a water-colour, Cliff and cove (in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto), are landscapes characterized by minute figures as central themes surrounded by trees, rocks, and water.While teaching the antique, drawing from casts of classical sculpture, at the Ontario School of Art (now the Ontario College of Art), Toronto, from 1876 to 1882, Perre instructed the school's early students, including George Agnew Reid. He probably also influenced the youthful Homer Ransford Watson, whom he met at the Toronto photographic studio of William Notman. They may have been sketching companions given the fact that Perre's Dundas Road and Watson's The old Dundas Road (National Gallery of Canada) both date from 1881. Perre was elected a member of the Ontario Society of Artists in 1874 and was a close associate of society members who proposed him as a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1880. He exhibited with both societies, as well as at the Art Association of Montreal and at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition. His paintings were displayed in the Canadian sections at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition, 1876, and the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886.

      Broward Auction Gallery LLC
    • HENRI PERRE (CANADIAN, 1828-1890), FIGURE OUTSIDE OF COTTAGE, OIL ON CANVAS; SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 15" x 12" — 38.1 x 30.5 cm.
      Aug. 27, 2015

      HENRI PERRE (CANADIAN, 1828-1890), FIGURE OUTSIDE OF COTTAGE, OIL ON CANVAS; SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 15" x 12" — 38.1 x 30.5 cm.

      Est: -

      HENRI PERRE (CANADIAN, 1828-1890)FIGURE OUTSIDE OF COTTAGE, OIL ON CANVAS; SIGNED LOWER LEFT15" x 12" — 38.1 x 30.5 cm.Estimate: $300—400

      Waddington's
    • Henri Perre Canadian Landscape Watercolor
      Aug. 10, 2014

      Henri Perre Canadian Landscape Watercolor

      Est: $300 - $500

      Henri Perre (Canadian, 1828-1890), "Landscape with Stream", watercolor on paper. Signed lower right. Painting depicting a quaint and picturesque green landscape with a quiet stream in foreground, possibly a view of the Don River outside of Toronto, Canada. Inscribed paper slip on back with possible location of view and date of 1886. Framed 16.4" x 20.5". Sight size approximately 8.5" x 12.75".

      Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
    • HENRI PERRE (CANADIAN, 1828-1890) LANDSCAPE WITH
      May. 16, 2013

      HENRI PERRE (CANADIAN, 1828-1890) LANDSCAPE WITH

      Est: $350 - $450

      HENRI PERRE (CANADIAN, 1828-1890) LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURE ON PATH AND GRAZING SHEEP; OIL ON CANVAS; SIGNED AND DATED '77 LOWER LEFT - Relined 12" x 18" - 30.5 x 45.7 cm.

      Waddington's
    • Henri Perre Canadian Landscape W/C Late 19thC
      Dec. 07, 2008

      Henri Perre Canadian Landscape W/C Late 19thC

      Est: $300 - $500

      Henri Perre (Canadian, 1828-1890), pastoral landscape; watercolor; 9 1/2" x 15 1/2"; signed and dated '79 lower left. The Art Museum of Toronto exhibition label verso.

      Ripley Auctions
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