Historical Canadian Art

AUGUST 14 - 28, 2025

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CANADIAN FINE ART

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DIRECTOR

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ASSOCIATE SPECIALIST

Kendra Popelas kp@waddingtons.ca 416-967-6027

FRONT COVER

Lot 6

Frederick Arthur Verner Misty Morning, 1881 (detail)

FRONT INSIDE COVER

Lot 10

Attributed to Cornelius David Krieghoff The Horse Trader, ca. 1855

BACK INSIDE COVER

Lot 27

Laura Adeline Muntz Lyall Mother and Daughter

BACK COVER

Lot 14

After George Bulteel Fisher Le Saut De La Niagara, ca. 1800

1

ALFRED WORSLEY HOLDSTOCK (1820-1901)

GATINEAU RIVER

watercolour on card signed lower right; titled to label on frame verso

3.5 x 5 in — 8.9 x 12.7 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Westmount, QC

$500 — 700

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG (1822-1914) ON BLACK STURGEON ROCK, LAKE SUPERIOR

watercolour on paper, laid on card signed to mount lower right; titled to mount lower left; titled verso

3 x 5.5 in — 7.6 x 14 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, United Kingdom

$800 — 1,200

3

OTTO REINHOLD JACOBI, OSA (1812-1901)

UNTITLED (LANDSCAPE WITH SHORELINE), 1803 oil on canvas signed and dated lower left 20 x 28 in — 50.8 x 71.1 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$1,500 — 2,000

4

ATTRIBUTED TO FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, OSA, ARCA (1836-1928) ROCKY PORTAGE, NIPIGON RIVER, 1875 watercolour on paper dated lower right; titled to label verso 8 x 20 in — 20.3 x 50.8 cm

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby’s, Toronto, ON, 15 May 1996, lot 65 Private Collection, Ontario

$2,000 — 3,000

5

FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, OSA, ARCA (1836-1928)

ON THE COAST OF MAINE, 1886 watercolour on paper signed and dated lower right; titled verso 12 x 25.5 in — 30.5 x 64.8 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON Waddington’s Auctioneers, Toronto, ON, 15 Jul 2010, lot 22

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$2,000 — 3,000

FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, OSA, ARCA (1836-1928)

MISTY MORNING, 1881 watercolour on paper signed and dated lower right; titled to nameplate 11.5 x 25 in — 29.2 x 63.5 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Seattle, WA

$3,000 — 5,000

7

FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, OSA, ARCA (1836-1928)

HERD OF BUFFALO, 1884

watercolour on paper, laid on board signed and dated lower right

11.5 x 24 in — 29.2 x 61 cm

PROVENANCE:

Waddington McLean & Co, Ltd., Toronto, ON, 17 Jun 1976, lot 242

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$6,000 — 8,000

8

UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST (19TH CENTURY) MÉTIS HUNTER (BOY WITH RIFLE)

watercolour on paper, laid on cardboard 12 x 8.5 in — 30.5 x 21.6 cm

PROVENANCE:

Dominion Gallery, Montreal, QC Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$400 — 600

AFTER CORNELIUS DAVID KRIEGHOFF (1815-1872)

INDIAN GROUP IN WINTER LANDSCAPE oil on canvas

signed lower left; inscribed “6055” to label on stretcher verso

11.5 x 15.25 in — 29.5 x 38.7 cm

PROVENANCE:

Collection of Mrs. Duncan Mclennan, Lancaster, ON

Gifted to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by Dr. & Mrs. Matthew J. Boylen, Toronto, ON

Deaccessioned to benefit art purchases at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

See website for full catalogue details.

$3,000 — 5,000

ATTRIBUTED TO CORNELIUS DAVID KRIEGHOFF (1815-1872)

THE HORSE TRADER, CA. 1855 oil on canvas titled to nameplate

16.25 x 21.75 in — 41.3 x 55.2 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Pennsylvania, USA

Hirschl and Adler Inc., New York, USA (1955) Watson Art Galleries, Montreal, QC (1955) Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Matthew J. Boylen, Toronto, ON

Gifted to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by the above (1961)

Deaccessioned to benefit art purchases at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

$10,000 — 15,000

11

CORNELIUS DAVID KRIEGHOFF (1815-1872) RETURNING FROM MARKET (AFTER SIR AUGUSTUS WALL CALLCOTT, [1779-1844]) oil on canvas signed and inscribed “after Callcott” lower right; indistinctly inscribed verso 21.1 x 26.5 in — 53.5 x 67.3 cm

PROVENANCE:

The Estate of Etta Florence Gale (née Taylor), Toronto, ON Waddington’s Auctioneers, Toronto, ON, 27 Oct 1978, lot 13, as Fording a River John & Marg Stanford, Thornhill, ON By descent to the present Private Collection, Burlington, ON

LITERATURE:

Marcel Barbeau, Cornelius Krieghoff: Pioneer Painter of North America (Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1934), 149, as Fording a River.

$15,000 — 20,000

12

AFTER WILLIAM HENRY BARTLETT (1809-1854)

INDIAN GRAVE (OTTAWA RIVER) oil on canvas

17.75 x 27 in — 44.8 x 68.6 cm

PROVENANCE:

Gifted to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by Dr. & Mrs. Matthew J. Boylen, Toronto, ON Deaccessioned to benefit art purchases at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

EXHIBITED:

Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, ON, 26 Aug - 10 Sept 1955, Gallery IV, #31 (as “Indian Funeral, Moonlight”).

Cornelius Krieghoff ca. 1815-1872, 1962, no. 94 (repr.). Cornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872, 1971, Musée du Québec, QC, no. 79 (repr. as “Le cimetiére indien”).

$6,000 — 8,000

WILLIAM RAPHAEL (1833-1914)

SUNSET, 1894

oil on canvas

signed and dated lower right 15.75 x 10 in — 40 x 25.4 cm

PROVENANCE:

T. Eaton Company Fine Art Galleries, Montreal, QC

Private Collection, Montreal, QC

Fine Art Leasing DSL, Montreal, QC

Private Collection, Burlington, ON

$600 — 800

AFTER GEORGE BULTEEL FISHER (1764-1834)

LE SAUT DE LA NIAGARA, CA. 1800 hand-coloured aquatint and engraving on paper published by Lefebvre-Marchand SC after J.B. Tisher [sic]

image 16 x 25 in — 40.6 x 63.5 cm; sight 16.75 x 25.5 in — 42.5 x 64.8 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$1,000 — 2,000

15

AFTER ROBERT HANCOCK (1730-1817) THE GREAT CATARACT OR WATERFALL, OF NIAGARA IN NORTH AMERICA, 1778-79 engraving on paper titled to plate sheet 7.75 x 12 in — 19.7 x 30.5 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

LITERATURE: Charles Theodore Middleton, A New and Complete System of Geography (London: J. Cooke, 1778-79), Vol. II.

$200 — 300

16

JOSEPH BEARDMORE (19TH CENTURY) FALLS OF NIAGARA, JULY 1868 ink and watercolour on card signed, titled, and dated verso image 7 x 10.5 in — 17.8 x 26.7 cm; sheet 10 x 14 in — 25.4 x 35.6 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$200 — 300

UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST (19TH CENTURY)

VIEW OF THE FALLS OF NIAGARA watercolour on paper inscribed “View of Niagara by an English Officer” verso

8 x 10.25 in — 20.3 x 26 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$200 — 300

LUCAS WEBER (1811-1860), SWISS, AFTER KARL BODMER (1809-1893) NIAGARA FÄLLE - LES CHÛTES DU NIAGARA - NIAGARA FALLS, 1841 aquatint, etching, and engraving published by Ackermann & Co., London sight 15.5 x 19.5 in — 39.4 x 49.5 cm; image 11.8 x 17.1 in — 30 x 43.5 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$700 — 1,000

19

C. GREBNER LITH. (FIRM, BUFFALO) (19TH CENTURY)

NIAGARA FALLS FROM VICTORIA POINT, 1860; NIAGARA FALLS FROM NEAR TOP OF FERRY ROAD, 1860

two hand-coloured lithographs on paper each titled and numbered “13” to plates lower margin each sight 9 x 12.75 in — 22.9 x 32.4 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$400 — 600

20

CAPTAIN PARR (19TH CENTURY)

NIAGARA FALLS, THE WHOLE VIEW, CA. 1870 watercolour on paper board titled to margin; titled and dated “Circa 1870” to nameplate

17.5 x 20.5 in — 44.5 x 52.1 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$400 — 600

WILLIAM FORREST (1805-1899), BRITISH, AFTER FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH (1826-1900)

THE GREAT FALL NIAGARA, 1875 engraving in colours on paper published by M. Knoedler & Co., New York sight 17.25 x 27.25 in — 43.8 x 69.2 cm; image 10.1 x 21.8 in — 25.7 x 55.3 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$400 — 600

UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST (19TH CENTURY) FROM THE EDGE OF THE HORSE-SHOE FALL, NIAGARA, 1863 graphite and ink on paper titled lower centre and dated “31 July 1863” lower right sheet 4.5 x 7 in — 11.4 x 17.8 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$200 — 300

23

MARC AURÈLE DE FOY SUZOR-COTÉ (1869-1937)

LE VIEUX PIONNIER CANADIEN

bronze

signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “Copyright Canada 1914” / “Roman Bronze Works New York”

15 x 16 in — 38.1 x 40.6 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Seattle, WA

$5,000 — 7,000

24

MARC AURÈLE DE FOY SUZOR-COTÉ (1869-1937)

LA COMPAGNE DU VIEUX PIONNIER CANADIEN, 1912

bronze

signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “Copyright Canada” / “Roman Bronze Works New York”

16 x 17 in — 40.6 x 43.2 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Seattle, WA

$5,000 — 7,000

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE THEODORE BERTHON (1806-1892) PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN oil on canvas

30 x 25 in — 76.2 x 63.5 cm

PROVENANCE:

The Estate of Mrs. Mabel Turner, Hawkestone, ON Private Collection, Ontario, acquired ca. 1960 By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$1,500 — 2,500

ESTELLE MURIEL KERR (1879-1971)

IN THE SUNROOM, 1916 oil on canvas signed and dated lower left; titled to exhibition labels verso 33 x 30 in — 83.8 x 76.2 cm

PROVENANCE:

Cooling Galleries, Toronto, ON Private Collection, Ontario

EXHIBITED:

Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 11 Mar - 15 Apr 1916.

Canadian National Exhibition: Department of Fine Arts, Toronto, ON, 26 Aug - 11 Sept, 1916.

$1,000 — 2,000

27

LAURA ADELINE MUNTZ LYALL, OSA, RCA (1860-1930)

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER oil on paperboard signed lower right 9 x 11 in — 22.9 x 27.9 cm

PROVENANCE:

Waddington McLean & Co Ltd., Toronto, ON, 17 Jun 1975, lot 396 Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$3,000 — 5,000

FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN, RCA (1871-1960)

INTERIOR SCENE, WOMAN KNITTING, CA. 1903 oil on canvas

signed lower left; titled to gallery label verso 20 x 16 in — 50.8 x 40.6 cm

PROVENANCE:

Continental Galleries Inc., Montreal, QC Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$3,000 — 5,000

GEORGE HORNE RUSSELL, PRCA (1861-1933)

THE CLAM DIGGERS, CA. 1916 oil on canvas signed lower left

33 x 41.75 in — 83.8 x 106 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

Acquired from the above in 1977 by the present Private Collection, Toronto, ON

EXHIBITED:

Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, ON, 25 Aug - 10 Sep 1917.

$6,000 — 10,000

SIR WILLIAM CORNELIUS VAN HORNE (1843-1915)

UNTITLED (LANDSCAPE), 1911 oil on canvas

initialled and dated lower left; inscribed “To Mrs. W. P. Molson” lower left

31.25 x 44.5 in — 79.4 x 113 cm

PROVENANCE:

Collection of Mrs. W.A. Molson (née Esther Shepherd) By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$4,000 — 6,000

31

JOSEPH-CHARLES FRANCHERE (1866-1921)

MATAPEDIA VALLEY, AFTERNOON, 1921 oil on canvas, laid on board signed lower left

10.5 x 16 in — 26.7 x 40.6 cm

PROVENANCE:

Morency Gallery, Montreal, QC

Collection of Oswald Mayrand, Outremont, QC Gifted to Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB

Deaccessioned to benefit art purchases at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

$800 — 1,200

CLARENCE ALPHONSE GAGNON, RCA (1881-1942)

MISSES OLIVE AND EDNA PRETTY AND MRS. LUCILE GAGNON, STE-PÉTRONILLE, ILE D’ORLÉANS, 1919 graphite and pastel on paper stamped “Atelier Gagnon” lower right; titled and dated to gallery labels verso; certificate of authenticity signed verso 9 x 12.75 in — 22.9 x 32.4 cm

PROVENANCE:

Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal, QC Private Collection, Ontario

$4,000 — 6,000

PELEG FRANKLIN BROWNELL, OSA, RCA (1857-1946)

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL, 1906 oil on canvas signed and dated upper right 24.2 x 18.1 in — 61.4 x 46.1 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$2,000 — 3,000

LAURA ADELINE MUNTZ LYALL, OSA, RCA (1860-1930)

UNTITLED (PORTRAIT OF A GIRL), 1904 watercolour on paper, laid on paperboard signed and dated upper left 9 x 7 in — 22.9 x 17.8 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$1,200 — 1,800

35

FREDERICK SIMPSON COBURN, RCA (1871-1960)

MELBOURNE, UPPER TOWNSHIP, 1932 oil on canvas signed and dated “32” lower left

14.25 x 25 in — 36.2 x 63.5 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Estate, Ontario

$6,000 — 8,000

36

ATTRIBUTED TO MARC-AURÉLE DE FOY SUZOR-COTÉ (1869-1937)

UNTITLED (LANDSCAPE), 1911 oil on canvas, laid on board inscribed, dated, and situated at “Canada” lower right 18 x 24 in — 45.7 x 61 cm

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Nova Scotia

$1,000 — 2,000

FREDERIC MARLETT BELL-SMITH, RCA (1846-1923)

UNTITLED (SEASCAPE), 1910 watercolour on paper, laid on board signed lower left; dated verso 12 x 18 in — 30.5 x 45.7 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Seattle, WA

$1,200 — 1,800 38

LUCIUS

RICHARD O’BRIEN, RCA (1832-1899)

UNTITLED (SEASCAPE)

watercolour on paper signed lower right sight 13.5 x 20 in — 34.3 x 50.8 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Seattle, WA

$1,500 — 2,000

GEORGE AGNEW REID, OSA, PRCA (1860-1947)

STUDY FOR MURAL PANEL

“CABOT RAISING THE FLAG ON THE COAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND 1497”, 1930 mixed media on paper signed and dated “30” lower left 12.5 x 9 in — 31.8 x 22.9 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON Sotheby’s, Toronto, ON, 22 Nov 2004, lot 32 (offered in a set of six)

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

LITERATURE:

Muriel Miller, George Reid: A Biography, (Toronto: Summerhill Press, 1987), 136. “Historical Murals by George Reid in the Auditorium of Jarvis Collegiate” in History of Jarvis Collegiate blogspot. https://jarviscollegiate.blogspot.com/2016/10/ george-reid-murals-in-auditorium-of.html access 8 Aug 2025

$600 — 800

LAURA ADELINE MUNTZ LYALL, OSA, RCA (1860-1930)

UNTITLED (PORTRAIT OF A GIRL), 1906 watercolour on paper, laid on board signed and dated lower right 9 x 7 in — 22.9 x 17.8 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON

$1,200 — 1,800

LAURA ADELINE MUNTZ LYALL, OSA, RCA (1860-1930)

GIRL IN A GARDEN oil on canvas signed lower right

23.5 x 17.5 in — 59.7 x 44.5 cm

PROVENANCE:

Peter Ohler Fine Arts Ltd., Vancouver, BC Private Collection, British Columbia

$5,000 — 7,000

WILLIAM BRYMNER, OSA, PRCA (1855-1925)

VILLAGE STREET

watercolour on paper, laid on board signed lower right

8.75 x 5 in — 22.2 x 12.7 cm

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Toronto, ON Cowley Abbott, Toronto, ON, 5 Jun 2019, lot 327 Private Collection, Ottawa, ON

$1,200 — 1,800

LUCIUS RICHARD O’BRIEN, OSA, PRCA (1832-1899)

VICTORIA ISLAND

watercolour on paper signed lower left; titled to gallery labels verso Sight 10 x 6.8 in — 25.4 x 17.3 cm

PROVENANCE:

Loch Gallery Inc., Winnipeg, MB Private Collection, Ontario

$500 — 700

FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, RCA (1869-1959)

MARESCHAL-NIEL ROSES, 1892 oil on board

signed and dated lower right; titled and dated verso 14.25 x 22 in — 36.2 x 55.9 cm

PROVENANCE:

Acquired directly from the artist By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario

$800 — 1,200