Paul Kane (1810-1871)

Aliases: Paul Keane

Professions: Genre Painter; Landscape painter; Porträtmaler

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  PAUL KANE [AMER. B1937], OIL, PORTRAIT, INDIAN

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  Kane, Paul

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Paul Kane Biography

(b Mallow, Co. Cork, 3 Sept 1810; d Toronto, 20 Feb 1871). Canadian painter of Irish birth. He grew up in Toronto (then York), where his parents had emigrated in 1819. His early days there and in nearby Cobourg (c . 1826–34) were spent as a painter of ornamental work on chairs for a furniture factory. It is probable that he also received private art lessons at Upper Canada College in York (c . 1830–34). In 1841–2 he travelled in Europe, studying and copying Old Masters in galleries in Rome and northern Italy. In London in 1843 he met George Catlin, the American painter of Native American tribes in the western USA. Kane determined to follow Catlin’s example and create a series of paintings of the Native Americans of Canada’s West before their cultures had become too contaminated by European settlers.

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