Collector's Comment: Born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, Kilpin studied at the Royal College of Art, London, and in Amsterdam, but is considered to be mainly self-taught. He immigrated to Montreal in 1906, where he later died. A landscape, figurative and marine painter, Kilpin's work is sensitive, illustrative and classically executed in the manner of the great Victorian school of British artists of his day.