George agnew reid biography definition

Canadian painter ()

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A. Reid (July 25, &#; August 23, ) was a Canadian artist, painter, influential educator and administrator.^[1] He is best known as a genre painter, but his work encompassed the mural, and genre, figure, historical, portrait and landscape subjects.^[2]

Early life

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A. Reid was born on his family's farm in Wingham, Canada West. After briefly apprenticing with an architect, he was trained at the Ontario School of Art, Toronto in , where he studied with Robert Harris. Afterwards, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from to where he was a protégé of Thomas Eakins who appointed him a demonstrator in anatomy classes.^[3]

He met his first wife artist Mary Hiester Reid at the Pennsylvania Academy, married her in and remained with her until her death in He also studied at the Académie Julian, with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and at the Académ