James Kerr-Lawson

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James Kerr-Lawson, a painter (October 28, 1862 in Scotland's Fifeshire, in May 1, 1939 in London, England). He took his family to Hamilton, Ontario. He studied at the Ontario College of Art from 1879 to 1880, studied at the Accademia d'Bell Arte in Ruiggali from 1880 to 1881 and studied at the Academy Julian in Paris from 1881 to 1884. He went back to Canada from 1885 to 1887, where he associated with William Bremer and Homer Watson. Since 1887, he traveled in France, Italy, Spain, Morocco, himself in Glasgow, and in London in 1900. In the 1890s he was related to British artists George Frederic Watts, John Rayberry and Frank Blancwyne, and British rice James McNeill Whistler. About 1897 he met Bernard Berenson, an American scholar and an art dealer.

Kerr Lawson was born in Scotland in 1862. He moved to Canada with his family when he was 3 years old and studied at Ontario Art University from 1879 to 1886. In the late 1880s, he studied at the French Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, Academia di Belle Arte, Academy Julien. His portrait and landscape in the late 1890s is influenced by realistic air painter Jules Bastian-Lepage. After returning to Canada in 1885, he was involved with other Canadian painters like Homer Watson. Two years later, he settled in London, England. In 1916, Car Lawson was asked by Lord Beaver Brooke to paint scenes of France and Belgian cities Arras and Ypres during the First World War. These paintings were installed in the Canadian war record room in 1921.