| Marmaduke Matthews | |
| Birth Name: | Marmaduke Matthews |
| Birth Date: | 29 August 1837 |
| Birth Place: | Barcheston, Warwickshire, United Kingdom |
| Death Place: | Toronto, Canada |
| Nationality: | English born-Canadian |
| Field: | Painter |
| Training: | Cowley School, Oxford, and London University, later, in London, England, with Thomas Miles Richardson Jr., a watercolour artist from Oxford |
Marmaduke Matthews (29 August 1837 – 24 September 1913) was an English-Canadian painter, born in Barcheston, Warwickshire, England.[1]
Matthews studied watercolour painting at Oxford, England before moving to Toronto, Canada in 1860 to embark on a career as a painter of landscapes. He was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint the Canadian prairies and rocky mountains. He worked for William van Horne, then-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and made several cross-country trips to Canada's west, including in 1887, 1889 and 1892.[2] He reportedly drew his sketches from the cowcatcher of a locomotive.[3]
He is also notable for playing a founding role in the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts as a watercolour painter. In Toronto, he is affectionately remembered as the creator of Wychwood Park in 1874 - a plot of land that he once lived on, that became an artists' community and is now one of the higher-income neighbourhoods located northwest of downtown Toronto.
Matthews died in Toronto on 24 September 1913.[4] His works are included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario,[5] and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.[6]