Edmund Wyly Grier

Sir Edmund Wyly Grier
Born	November 26, 1862 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	December 7, 1957 (aged 95) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Slade School of Art Académie Julian
Known for	Painting

Sir Edmund Wyly Grier, RCA (November 26, 1862 – December 7, 1957) was an Australian born Canadian portrait painter.^[1] He studied in London at the Slade School of Art under Alphonse Legros, in Rome at the Scuola Libera del Nudo, and in Paris at the Académie Julian under Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. He exhibited from 1886 to 1895 at the Royal Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy. In 1891 he returned to Canada to stay, opening a portrait studio in Toronto. Grier won recognition and admission to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts^[2] becoming its president in 1929. He painted numerous portraits of politicians, corporate leaders and other notable contemporaries, his first commissioned portrait being in 1888 and his last in 1947.

In 1935, he was made a Knight Bachelor by the government of Richard Bedford Bennett. In 1937 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Corresponding Academician.

Gallery

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  Toronto city librarian James Bain, 1909

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  Lieut. Governor Lionel Herbert Clarke, 1921

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  Speaker William David Black, 1930

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  George Henry Murray, Province House (Nova Scotia)

References

1. "SIR WYLY GRIER, 95, CANADIAN ARTIST; Portrait Painter in School of Traditionalists Dies-- Led Royal Academy". New York Times. December 9, 1957. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
2. "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Retrieved 11 September 2013.