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A Canadian Adventurer
John A. Hammond (1843-1939) spent his life traveling the world, seeking fortune and capturing the various landscapes, seascapes and mountains he admired.
Born in Montreal in 1843, he was already at work as a marble polisher by the age of nine. In the 1860s he took off for New Zealand during the Central Otago Gold Rush to seek his fortune. Upon his return to Canada, he spent time working for the Canadian Pacific Railway. As he traveled out West he collected the sketches and paintings he would later use to create his well known CPR commissioned murals of of Canadian destinations. Mural painting also sent him to China and Japan by steamship.
In the 1880s he settled in New Brunswick, becoming an important educator in the area and painting his most famous scenes - soft and atmospheric, fog drenched harbours of the east coast. The gallery features one such harbour scene, entitled Inward Bound (seen above). Accompanying it is a lovely pastoral scene of the picturesque and historical significant Tantramar Marshes, where battles between French and English sparked the expulsion of the Acadians.
Click below to see works by John Hammond at the gallery:
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