, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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In the Orchard (Spring), 1892
William Brymner
British, Canadian, 1855
- 1925
oil on paperboard
40.2 x 30.6 cm
Purchased 2002 with the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Canadian Art Fund
National Gallery of Canada (no. 41077)
While born in Scotland and dying in England, William Brymner spent his entire professional career in Canada where he was a well-respected teacher in Montreal and President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts from 1909 until 1917. Not an Impressionist painter, Brymner's watercolours and oils were nonetheless strongly influenced by the light effects he studied sketching out of doors. A man and a woman, dressed in dark clothes and wearing hats, walk along a path that meanders through an orchard in bloom. The man turns his head as he addresses his companion while she listens attentively with her eyes on the path. Isolated in this framed space, the engagement is intimate and poignant.
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