George Heriot : : Postmaster-Painter of the Canadas / / Gerald Finley.
George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy postmaster general of British North America from 1800 to 1816. He was also a travel writer (his Travels through the Canadas was published in 1807) and a poet. In this volume, a combin...
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Finley, Gerald, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut George Heriot : Postmaster-Painter of the Canadas / Gerald Finley. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1983 1 online resource (332 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology of George Heriot's Life -- 1. Topographical Landscape and the Picturesque -- 2. The Formative Years -- 3. The Canadian Experience, 1792-1800 -- 4. First Years as Postal Administrator -- 5. The Maturing Vision, 1800—6 -- 6. A Scottish Interlude and Colonial Friendships -- 7. Gathering Clouds -- 8. The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath -- 9. Last Days in Canada -- 10. Travels in Britain and on the Continent -- 11. Last Years -- Appendix: The Heriot Family -- Notes -- Selective Bibliography -- Check-List of the Works of George Heriot -- Oil Paintings -- Watercolours -- Sketch-Books -- Prints -- Plates -- Places Illustrated in Heriot's Works -- Subjects Illustrated in Heriot's Works -- Collections and Collectors of Heriot's Works -- General Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy postmaster general of British North America from 1800 to 1816. He was also a travel writer (his Travels through the Canadas was published in 1807) and a poet. In this volume, a combination of biography and art history, Gerald Finley presents, for the first time, a rounded picture of Heriot, revealing his motives and ideals while also illuminating the texture of life in Canada during the early years of settlement. In describing Heriot's several roles as artist, administrator, patriot, spy, Finley presents a portrait of an eighteenth-century gentleman whose superficial desires were for an active public life but whose deeper yearnings were for a life of contemplation. As a member of the gentry it was natural that Heriot found his way into public service, for which he was suited both by education and by upbringing. Nevertheless, his public career did not always run smoothly and it ended in frustration and sadness. However, through his writing and especially his art Heriot found welcome relief from the tensions of his public duties. Indeed, Heriot's chief importance lies in his art. Trained as a topographical artist, he was an important exponent of the picturesque landscape. As a mode of vision the Picturesque furnished him with a special way of looking at recording the Canadian scene – to him Canada possessed the qualities of Arcadia. This viewpoint served both as aesthetic consolation and as stimulus to inspiration. This volume serves to recognize Heriot's artistic achievement and to accord him the place he deserves in the history of Canadian art and of the country itself. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Artists Canada Biography. Postmasters Canada Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487595227 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487595227 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487595227.jpg |
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