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HORATIO WALKER (1858– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 272 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WALKER (1858– )  , See also:American artist, was See also:born at Listowel, See also:Ontario, See also:Canada, on the 12th of May 1858 . When he was a See also:child his See also:family settled at See also:Rochester, New See also:York . Although entirely self-taught, he became a distinguished painter of animals, the figure and landscape . His pictures, principally of See also:Canadian See also:peasant See also:life and scenes, show the See also:influence of Tr'oyon and See also:Millet, mainly in their feeling for largeness of See also:composition, in solidity of See also:painting and in the choice of theme . He became a member of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design, New York, in 1891; of the American See also:Water Color Society and of the Royal See also:Institute of Painters in Water See also:Colours, See also:London . He received a See also:medal and a diploma at See also:Chicago, 1893; and medals at See also:Buffalo, 1901; See also:Charleston, 1902; and St See also:Louis, 1904 . In 1888 he won the See also:Evans See also:prize of the American Water Color Society, New York .

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