Lot 210: Frances Ann Beechey Hopkins 1838 - 1919 Canadian

Frances Ann Beechey Hopkins 1838 - 1919 Canadian oil on board Raft in the Lake of Two Mountains, Ottawa River 6 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches 17.1 x 26.7 centimeters on verso initialed, titled, dated 1862 and inscribed ""to be varnished in January 1863"" Literature:Mary Allondi, Canadian Watercolours and Drawings in the Royal Ontario Museum, 1980, similar work reproduced catalogue #937 Provenance:Wandenberg, Paris, label on verso Frances Hopkins painted similar works in watercolour of log rafts enroute to Quebec City. Examples of these works are held in public collections, such as Timber Raft on the St. Lawrence at the Royal Ontario Museum and Timber Raft, in the Peter Winkworth Collection, National Archives of Canada.