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HALE, Elizabeth Frances Amherst
- Born
- Walcot, England, 1774
- Died
- Quebec City, Quebec, 1826
- Biography synopsis
- Elizabeth Hale accompanied her husband, deputy paymaster general of British troops, to Quebec City in 1799. Like many British women at this time she had learned to paint from a Picturesque point of view. Her drawings and watercolours focused on urban and rural landscapes including the seigneury in Ste. Anne de la Perade which the Hales owned. Among the watercolor and drawing works held by Archives Canada, she filled a small sketchbook with representations of the siegneury. A watercolour depicting York (Toronto) points to her copy work as she had not visited this location. A few of her later watercolours are in the collection of the Musee national du Quebec.
- Media used
- Watercolour
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Eastern Townships Resource Centre Archival & Photo Collection, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Died." Quebec Mercury 20 Jun. 1826
- "La Famille Hale." Bulletin des recherches historiques 38 (Dec. 1932): 750-51
- "On Saturday..." Quebec Gazette 11 Jul. 1799
- "Port of Quebec." Quebec Gazette 13 Jun. 1816
- Béland, Mario. "Elizabeth Frances Hale: 1774-1826." La Peinture au Québec 1820-1850: Nouveaux Regards, Nouvelles Perspectives. Québec: Musée du Québec, 1991: 277-282
- Bell, Michael. Painters in a New Land: From Annapolis Royal to the Klondike Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973
- Coates, Colin. "A Picturesque Landscape." The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000: 144-161
- Coates, Colin M. "Like 'The Thames Towards Putney': The Appropriation of Landscape in Lower Canada." Canadian Historical Review 74.1 (1993): 317-343
- Cockburn, James Pattison. The last "lion": Rambles in Quebec with James Pattison Cockburn, incorporating Quebec and its environs, a reproduction of the 1831 guidebook. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1978
- Cooke, W. Martha E. W. H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana: Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, Manoir Richelieu Collection. Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada, 1983
- Finley, Gerald E. George Heriot: Postmaster-painter of the Canadas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983
- Gignac, Gilbert. "Elizabeth Frances Hale." La Peinture au Québec, 1820-1850. Quebec: Musée du Québec, 1991: 276-282
- Harper, J. Russell. A People's Art: Primitive, Naïve, Provincial and Folk Painting in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto, 1974
- Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
- Kobayashi, Terry and Michael Bird. A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1985
- Korda, Andrea. "Femininity, the Picturesque, and the Canadian Landscape: The Drawings and Watercolours of Elizabeth Simcoe and Elizabeth Hale." Atlantis 30.2 (2006): 8-21
- Lamarche, Helene. "Elizabeth Frances Hale, seigneuresse [de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade] et artiste." Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française 55.2 (Summer 2004):125-127
- Martin, Sandra. "Rhyme and Reason: St. Lawrence yields centuries of fascinating women." Globe and Mail (Toronto) 10 Jul. 2002: 1
- McKendry, Blake. A to Z of Canadian Art: Artists and Art Terms Kingston: B. McKendry, 1997
- McKendry, Blake. Dictionary of Folk Artists in Canada: From the 17th Century to the Present Elginburg: Blake McKendry, 1988
- McKenzie, Ruth. "Fanny Amelia Bayfield (Wright)." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Ottawa: Libraries and Archives Canada, 2008
http://www.biographi.ca/en/ - Musee du Quebec. La Collection des dessins et estampes: 80 oeuvres choisies. Quebec: Musee du Quebec, 1991
- Musee du Quebec. "Les artistes: Hale, Elizabeth Frances." Paysages: Agenda d'art 1990. Quebec: Musee du Quebec, 1990
- Orlebar, Frances Hale. "Memories." Island 43 (Spring/Summer 1998): 31-39
- Petteys, Chris, et al. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
- Sotheby and Co. (Canada). Canadian Art At Auction 1968-1975 Toronto: Sotheby and Co, 1975
- Timperlake, J., compiler. Illustrated Toronto: Past and Present Toronto: P.A. Gross, 1877
Writings by- Hale, Elizabeth Frances. The Rising Country: the Hale-Amherst Correspondence, 1799-1825. Toronto: Champlain Society, 2002
