GEORGE AGNEW REID

Titled verso "A Don Valley Orchard", signed lower left and dated 1928, oil on board, 25.4 x 30.5cm (10 x 12in); Provenance: Joyner Waddingtons, 2006; Sotheby's Toronto, 2007; present private estate collection, London; George Agnew Reid, Canadian, 1860-1947; a prominent late 19th/early 20th century painter, educator and administrator; trained at the Ontario School of Art in Toronto, 1879, and later studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1882 to 1885 where he was a protégé of Thomas Eakins; his works include genre scenes, as well as portraits and landscapes; this is a fine example of his work with an impressionistic influence