Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Portrait of the artist
Level of description
Item
Repository
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
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[ca. 1886] (Creation)
- Creator
- Fowler, Daniel
Physical description area
Physical description
1 photograph : b&w ; 20.1 x 25.4 cm.
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Daniel Fowler (1810-1894) was an artist on Amherst Island, Ontario.
[See Dictionary of Canadian Biography for full biographical sketch]
Scope and content
Item is a photograph of a self-portrait by Daniel Fowler, originally drawn with charcoal on paper.
Notes area
Immediate source of acquisition
Original held at the National Gallery of Canada (#190).
Availability of other formats
Copy published in 'Heritage Kingston" pg.191,no.236
Restrictions on access
Open
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Written permission from the National Gallery of Canada is required for publication.
General note
Fowler (1810-94) was born at Down, Kent, England. He was apprenticed for 3 years to J.D.Harding, a London watercolourist. In 1843 he emigrated to Canada, taking up farming on Amherst Island,near Kingston.
Conservation
Conservation code: 1
Access points
Subject access points
Genre access points
Control area
Status
Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Description created 8/29/2002.