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painting (portrait)

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The Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald

Ernest Fosbery

Ernest Fosbery’s art experience included the First World War in France, where he was reassigned as a Canadian war artist after he was injured in the Battle of the Somme. Born in Ottawa in 1874, he studied there and in Paris in the fin de siècle years. He taught art in Buffalo, New York and Ottawa, where his work included richly detailed etchings of the city, including Parliament Hill. He was so influential in the medium that the National Gallery has written that his death in 1960 was “the end of an era in etching in the capital.”