Frederick Arthur Verner

Frederick Arthur Verner ( born February 26, 1836 † May 16, 1928 ) was a Canadian painter who is most famous for his landscape paintings of the American West. He is heavily influenced by Paul Kane, who mainly held the life of the American Indians in his sketches and paintings.

Verner was born in the then untapped Ontario. Already as a teenager he was inspired by the paintings of Kane. His attempts by him to be accepted as a student, but failed. He went on to London, vo he studied from 1856 to 1860 Art. A little over a year he was a member of the British military. In 1862 he returned to Toronto, where he first worked in a photo studio, there to add color to black -and-white photographs. During this time he became friends with his longtime role model Paul Kane. Like Kane, he focused on scenes from the Canadian West. Most sketches which formed the basis for his paintings, he drew, as he accompanied the 1873 expedition of Alexander Morris.

1880 Verner moved to London, but returned frequently to Canada to paint there. In Toronto, he also showed his work several times. In 1893 he became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy.