"Fishing Near Okehampton" William R. Hope, Canadian, Lndscape
William R. Hope
Fishing Near Okehampton, 1900
Monogrammed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas laid to board
6 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches
William R. Hope was born at Montreal and travelled to Paris in the 1880s to study art under Aime Morot, Luc Oliver Merson and Antonin Mercie, often practicing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. He continued his studies in Rome and the Netherlands before living for a period in Bath, England. On returning to Montreal, he quickly became an influential member of the city's art community and in 1890, for the purpose of "social enjoyment, and the promotion of arts and letters", he founded the "Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal". The club first met at Hope's home in Montreal and after his death the club continued to meet up until the 1960s in the studios of Edmond Dyonnet, also on Dorchester Street. The Pen and Pencil Club quickly rose to prominence and its members included William Brymner, Maurice Cullen, Edmond Dyonnet, Robert Harris, Stephen Leacock, Lt.-Colonel John McCrae, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, William Henry Drummond, Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Henri Hébert...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil, Board