. The New England magazine . ear. Here he re- ■mained four years, duringwhich time he was awardedthe first place as a draughts-man, in the concour for places,a great honor for a Canadianartist, such men as KenyonCox, Thayer, Stott and otherl)rominent American artists,being at that time pupilsof Gerome. After receivinga thorough training underGerome, he became a pupilof Benjamin Constant, so asto obtain a knowledge ofcolor, Constant being con-sidered to have no equal inthis respect. In 1883, Mr. Woodcockexhibited his first picture, Pifferari,in the Salon. The following year hehad two pictures a
. The New England magazine . ear. Here he re- ■mained four years, duringwhich time he was awardedthe first place as a draughts-man, in the concour for places,a great honor for a Canadianartist, such men as KenyonCox, Thayer, Stott and otherl)rominent American artists,being at that time pupilsof Gerome. After receivinga thorough training underGerome, he became a pupilof Benjamin Constant, so asto obtain a knowledge ofcolor, Constant being con-sidered to have no equal inthis respect. In 1883, Mr. Woodcockexhibited his first picture, Pifferari,in the Salon. The following year hehad two pictures admitted, Revenantdu Puits, and Le Nid Abandonn^,reproduced in these columns. The firstis a bit of Grez on the Marne, a favoriteresort of artists. The scene is a typicalFrench one ; a young peasant girl carry- CANADIAN ART AND ARTISTS. 165 ing her earthenware pitcher and cladin the loose, picturesque costume ofNorthern France, walking down the nar-row path with the slow ungraceful gaitof the peasantry, under a blazing noon-. ing a medal by three voices. It is prob-ably the most finished and excellent ofhis productions. A good many of hisbest pictures are owned by collectors inNew York and other American is at present making sketches inCanada for future pictures. Mr. George Agnew Reid is on theright side of thirty and is one of the mostpromising of the younger men. Hestudied for some years under ThomasEakins in the Academy of Fine Arts inPhiladelphia, and also in the ateliers ofBenjamin Constant, Rixens and Dagnan-Bouveret in Paris. Since 1889, he haslived in Toronto, but has exhibited inthe Salon, and the Academy Exhibitionsin Philadelphia. He belongs to the real-istic school, choosing familiar subjectsfrom the simple life of the farming com-munities of Ontario, his native of his principal pictures are, TheCall to Dinner, Gossip, both in thepossession of a Toronto collector; Draw-ing Lots, a splendid piece of realism,representing two boys on a wall in a
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