Frederick William Lock | |
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 Frederick W. Lock, self-portrait, M672
Frederick W. Lock, 1858, Pastel, crayon McCord Museum, Montreal | |
| Born | 1825 St. Marylebone, London, England (baptized 31 May 1825, Moulton, Suffolk, England) |
| Died | 3Q 1885 St. Marylebone, London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, engraver (portraits, landscapes) |
| Spouse(s) | Emily Chaffey (first) (1829 - 8 Feb 1859) m. 1856, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. No children. Maria Hancox (second) (1842 - 3Q 1883) m. Oct 1863 Aston, Warwickshire, England. Three children. |
Frederick William Lock (active 1841–1863) is known primarily as a Canadian painter of portraits and landscapes. His medium was predominately pastel chalk crayon on paper. Many of Lock's pastel portraits were executed on "dark paper" so that the subject's faces often came out relatively dark-skinned, an unusual technique. A few of his landscapes were lithographed, notably of Niagara Falls and of The Thousand Islands, while others were in pencil, ink and in watercolor. Citations of Lock and his artwork are found in Early Printers and Engravers in Canada by J. Russel Harper, and in The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction by Anthony R. Westbridge and Diana L. Bodnar.[1][2]
F. W. Lock's works can be found in the British Museum, The National Gallery, and National Portrait Gallery, London, England; the McCord Museum, National Gallery of Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Montreal, QC; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario; the Brockville Museum, Brockville, Ontario; the Lac-Brome Museum, Knowlton, Quebec, Canada; and the Harvard/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
- ^ Harper, J. Russell, Early Painters and Engravers in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1970, ISBN 0-8020-1630-8; page 199
- ^ Westbridge, Anthony R. & Bodnar, Diana L. The Collector’s Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, Vol. 2, page 126, Westbridge Publications, Ltd., 2000. ISBN 0968590713