Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.
John Sell Cotman was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator, author and a leading member of the Norwich School of painters.
Sylvia Daoust, CM, CQ, born in Montreal, was one of the first female sculptors in Quebec. Sylvia Daoust was born in Montréal, Québec on May 24, 1902. She studied at the Council of Arts & Manufactures and the École des Beaux-Arts, under Charles Maillard and Maurice Feliz, and later under Edwin Holgate at the Montreal Arts Association. In Europe, places such as France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Belgium, Germany and England. She studied the works of important sculptors like Rodin, Despiau, Bourdelle, and Mestrovic, among others, and worked with Henri Charlier.
Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was a British artist and diarist in colonial Canada. She was the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
William Armstrong (1822–1914) was a Canadian artist and one of the early professional artists of Toronto, Ontario.
Frances Anne Hopkins was a British painter. She was the third of Frederick William Beechey's five children. In 1858, she married a Hudson's Bay Company official, Edward Hopkins, whose work took him to North America. Hopkins travelled alongside with him. While sailing, she was able to sketch extensively, therefore, capturing a now lost way of living – the last days of the fur trade.
George Adrian Cuthbertson (1898–1969) was a Canadian artist, researcher, and author. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.
Mildred Anne Butler was an Irish artist, who worked in watercolour and oil of landscape, genre and animal subjects. Butler was born and spent most of her life in Kilmurry, Thomastown, County Kilkenny and was associated with the Newlyn School of painters.
Helen Barbara Howard, RCA was a Canadian painter, wood engraver, draughtsperson, bookbinder and designer who produced work consistently throughout her life, from her graduation in 1951 from the Ontario College of Art until her unexpected death in 2002.
Emily Mary Bibbens Warren was a British Canadian artist and illustrator. She worked in ink, watercolour, oil, gouache, and graphite. Her favourite subjects included gardens, landscape, and interiors and exteriors of buildings. She is known for sunlight beaming through stained glass windows.
Mary Fitzpayne is an English artist.
Katherine "Kate" Mary Fryer, RBSA, was an English artist known for her wood engravings. She was the winner of the Hoffman Wood (Leeds) Gold Medal in 1969.
Eleanor Hudson, known professionally as Erlund Hudson,, was a watercolourist, etcher and designer best known for her depictions of women at work during the Second World War and her post-war paintings of ballet dancers.
Elizabeth Frances Amherst Hale was a Canadian artist living in Lower Canada . The daughter of William Amherst and Elizabeth Patterson, she was born Elizabeth Frances Amherst in England and grew up there. Hale moved to Canada in 1799 when her husband, John Hale, an officer in the British Army, was posted to Quebec City. She is known for her drawings and paintings of landscapes, particularly a watercolour of the new city of York in 1804. During the War of 1812 she took her children to England to avoid the conflict, returning after the British victory. After her husband purchased the seigneury of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, she filled a sketchbook with drawings of the buildings on the property and the surrounding area.
Lucy Mary Hope Jarvis was a Canadian painter and educator.
Alicia Killaly was a Canadian watercolour painter. She was born in London, Ontario in 1836. She lived in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto during the 1840s and 1850s. Killaly married Christopher H. Turner, a former British soldier, in 1871 and moved to England. Killaly died in 1908 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Fanny Amelia Bayfield was an English-born Canadian artist and educator.
Katherine Jane "Janie" Ellice was a British diarist and artist. She is most remembered for her chronicle and watercolours of a trip to Canada, in 1838, where she and her sister were taken prisoner during the Battle of Beauharnois.
Elizabeth "Eliza" Field was an English-born Canadian writer and artist. She was also known as Elizabeth Jones, Elizabeth Jones Carey and Kecheahgahmequa.
Katherine Nixon Bell, known as Kay Kinsman, was an artist, writer and student of history and languages. She is noted for her works created with watercolour orin pen and ink depicting street views and everyday life. As an artist and writer, Kinsman published three sketchbooks and her works were also exhibited in England and Quebec.
