Henry Martin

BiographyHenry Martin was born in Gloucestershire, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1853. He settled first in Toronto, but later moved to Hamilton, Ontario, where he worked as an artist from 1875 to 1888, painting oil and watercolour landscapes and flower studies. Although he was living in Canada, some of his landscapes were of English, French and Irish scenes.

Martin also taught at several private schools. He received awards for some of his early watercolours and paintings of scenes in Canada.

Martin’s work was influenced by the common 19th century notions of The Sublime, which combined ideas of picturesque beauty with an admiration for the awesome power of nature. Adventurers and explorers who sought out exotic locations such as Victoria Falls in Africa and the Rocky Mountains in North America fed this public fascination for scenes that could be admired for their beauty and feared for their wildness, at the same time.
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