SAMUEL SPARROW ~ 
18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND 

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• "Under the Patronage of the Countess Dalhousie"

•  "J. E. Acres, (late a Student of the Royal Academy,) Portrait, Miniature Painter, and Drawing Master ...Teach all the various branches in the polite and fashionable art of Drawing and Painting."

• "N.B. Mr. A Teaches satin, velvet and transparent Painting on the same terms. Schools attended. Old Painting restored, cleaned, and varnished."

• For Cards of address, apply to Mr. J. Tilton, opposite Ordnance Gate."

• Note: Lady Dalhousie lived in Halifax from 1816-20  ... Countess of Dalhousie, wife of the 9th Earl. She was Miss Christian Broun, an heiress in her own right, of an ancient Scottish family. The estate has descended in the direct line, male and female, from Sir David Broun, whose name is on the estate charter of 1272 ... 9th Earl of Dalhousie during his twelve years in Canada as a colonial administrator. He came to Canada in 1816, after serving in the Napoleonic Wars as one of Wellington's generals, and was Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia from 1816 to 1820. On the death of the Duke of Richmond, Dalhousie was appointed Governor General and held this office until 1828, when he left to become Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India ... http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/  - https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:yKoOwsp8fz4J:journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/download/11416/12358+%22Countess+of+Dalhousie%22+halifax&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShsWGAxWN966AUEs8HrGvvSmDiGdvTPTX2rUdRSL6Th5IQrdt6b_K9itX71NO3KsevDpEkxP47R6mtWD8V6XheNptSuu-SZy1O6QeFFgIDsW5SK_CKaWpXr-ZvyrqxzBtSHFiAW&sig=AHIEtbT06DOr3GZEmjiMbD5WDeN1QN0CQw

Acadian Recorder, January 3, 1818

http://gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/newspapers/archives.asp?ID=1017&Page=201114052

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sburns/1818/1818jan03.html - The Acadian Recorder, JANUARY 03, 1818, ADVERTISERS

1821-1822

• Almost a year after the death of Bishop [Right Rev. Edmund] Burke [1753 -1820], the publication of his portrait was the subject of rivalry between artist John Edward Acres (act. 1815-c.1823) and engraver Charles W. Torbett (act. 1812-34). Both men advertised in October 1821. Acres stating that his portrait, engraved by Torbett, would be published immediately, and Torbett stating that his engraving would be taken from a full-length drawing by John G. Toler (act. c. 1808-29) and would appear by January at 10s. to subscribers, 12s 6d. to non-subscribers. In January 1822 Acres exhibited "a representation as large as appeared the night before interment, in full stature taken by himself at the instance and request of the Rev. John Carroll and of other friends, being a true painting in transparency of the much respected Bishop Burke, as lying in state ...Admission 1s 3d". Torbett's engraving showing the Bishop in bust length, was published in March. Torbett is given sole credit as artist, engraver, and publisher. In retaliation, Acres advertised a few days later that the only likeness of Dr. Burke could be obtained from the original at his residence. No engraving after Acres is known to have been published ...

• Mary Allodi, Peter S. Winkworth, Printmaking in Canada: the earliest views and portraits (Royal Ontario Museum, McCord Museum, Public Archives Canada, 1980), p. 45.

• Teaching was a way for a woman to achieve a measure of independence, but the earliest teachers in Halifax left no tangible evidence of their presence beyond newspaper notices. For Eliza Thresher, Nova Scotia’s first professional woman artist, however, who announced her Select Drawing and Painting Academy in February 1821, we have her series of ten landscapes illustrating Alan Ramsay’s The Gentle Shepherd to proclaim her skill. Although JE Acres (who offered instruction in flower painting in 1822) has previously been cited as the first teacher of Maria Morris, it is more than likely that Eliza Thresher, who included flower painting in her curriculum, also contributed to her initial training – her Academy was on Salter Street where Maria’s mother, Sybella Morris, would later establish a school in her home. Teaching and botanical drawing are the two threads that weave through the story of Nova Scotia’s women artists in the nineteenth century ...

  • A path to learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists date - date, 2012 - http://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/site-agns/media/agns/Journal_springsummer2012.pdf

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