THOMAS HAROLD BEAMENT

Titled "RMS Nascopie", signed lower left, watercolour on paper, sight 26 x 21cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/4in); professionally framed and matted, frame outer dimensions 63.5 x 55.2cm (25 x 21 3/4in); Provenance: Waddingtons, Toronto; present private collection, London; note verso stating the RMS Nascopie was the first west-bound ship to complete the northwest passage, went up from Halifax through the Hudson Straits and was aground off Cape Dorset; Thomas Harold Beament, Canadian, 1898-1984; Beament served in the Royal Canadian Navy in WWI and was a Naval war artist, earned a law degree in 1922 and was president of the Royal Canadian Academy from 1964-1967