Peleg Franklin Brownell, painter, teacher (b at New Bedford, Mass 27 July 1857; d at Ottawa 13 Mar 1946). After studying at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, he went to Paris to study under Robert-Fleury, Bouguereau and Bonnat. In 1886 he became principal of the Ottawa Art School and subsequently headed the Woman's Art Association of Ottawa (later Ottawa Art Association), retiring 1937. He also painted in the West Indies, the US, the Gaspé and the Gatineau. Besides highly keyed landscapes, he produced portraits, flower studies, marine and genre scenes in oil, watercolour and pastel. A founder-member of the Canadian Art Club (1907), he was represented in the exhibitions of several art associations and showed internationally at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition; the 1900 Paris World's Fair, at which he won a bronze medal for his RCA diploma work, The Photographer, 1896; the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, St Louis, 1904; and the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-25. His paintings are found in major Canadian collections. Perhaps his best-known canvas is The Beach, St. Kitts (1913). (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peleg-franklin-brownell/) Though born in New Bedford Massachusetts, Brownell spent the majority of his adult life and his most productive years in Ottawa. Like many of his Canadian contemporaries, Brownell had studied in Paris, at the Academie Julian. While in Paris c. 1880, Brownell befriended Canadian artist William Brymner who it is thought later may have recommended him for a position at the Ottawa School of Art, where Brymner had been first headmaster. Brownell accepted the offer of employment and in 1887 moved from New York to Ottawa to become the new headmaster. Married and now father to a daughter, Brownell spent much of the next decade seemingly content with gentle domesticity. Burant writes: "...(M)any of his pieces... http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/peleg-franklin-brownell,-rca-osa-cac-canadian,-1-203-c-57812c151c undefined

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