| Alicia Killaly | |
| Birth Date: | 1836 |
| Birth Place: | London, Ontario |
| Death Place: | Grantham, United Kingdom |
| Field: | Painter |
| Spouse: | C. H. Turner |
Alicia Killaly (also called Alice Killaly; 1836–1908) was a Canadian watercolour painter. She was born in London, Upper Canada in 1836. She lived in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto during the 1840s and 1850s. Killaly married Christopher Hatton Turnor, a former British soldier, in 1871 and moved to England. Killaly died in 1908 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.[1]
A watercolour from the sketchbook of an unknown artist in the collection of the Toronto Public Library is titled Camping Out No. 2: Alice Killaly Sketching in a Canoe, Sparrow Lake, Ontario. May 1867. It shows the subject alone in a canoe in a lake, mostly hidden under a large umbrella.[2]
Her work depicts outdoor scenes in Canada, such as canoe trips, frozen rivers and Niagara Falls, and she may have been a student of Cornelius Krieghoff. Her watercolour, Quebec From Across the St. Lawrence, from about 1867, is in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.[3] An 1868 series of chromolithographs, A Picnic at Montmorency, on the subject of a humorous winter picnic is her only known commercial venture. Copies of these lithographs are held at the National Gallery of Canada,[4] McCord Museum of Canadian History and the Royal Ontario Museum, where they were part of the 2013 exhibit, Brushing It in the Rough: Women, Art and Nineteenth Century Canada.[5] [6] She is not known to have produced any artworks after her marriage.