Biography of JOHN A. HAMMOND

HAMMOND, John A.  RCA, OSA  (1843-1939).  Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hammond studied at l’École des Beaux-Arts, Paris; in Belgium (1884); in France with some of the Barbizon painters including Jean Francois Millet (1884-85); and with Charles Storm de Gravesend and James Whistler at Dordrecht in The Netherlands (1885-86). He travelled and painted extensively in London, England (1866), New Zealand (1866-69), across Canada and the United States (1877-1878); Italy (1885); China (1900); and Japan (1901). Working primarily in oil and watercolour, but also drawing and etching, he painted landscapes, portraits (1873-1885), and marinescapes especially Saint John Harbour and the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick (1880-84). His subjects also included the Rocky Mountains commissioned by the CPR (1890-92, 1909). Hammond worked at many jobs including participation in the New Zealand gold rush (1868); as a photographer in Notman’s studio with J. Fraser, Otto Jacobi, W. Weston and Henry Sandham in Toronto and Montreal (1870-82), and across Canada with a survey party laying out the railway through the Rocky Mountains (1870-1878). He taught at Owens Art School, Saint John, New Brunswick (1884-1907) and was Director at the School of Art at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick (1907-19) where he later died. He exhibited extensively with the AAM between 1883-1933, at the Paris Salon in 1886, the RA in 1886 and RCA between 1884-1935. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick in 1967. His work is in the collections of the AEAC, AGO, BAGF, GM, MMFA, NGC, NAC, VAG and WAG.

 

Biography courtesy of The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction: Volume II: G-L

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