Painting of John Graves Simcoe

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Creator: John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
Media Type: Image
Item Type: Paintings
Description: Oil Painting of John Graves Simcoe, fisrt Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791-1796. This was modern-day southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as the courts, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and in abolishing slavery. He ended slavery in Upper Canada long before it was abolished in the British Empire as a whole ? by 1810 there were no slaves in Upper Canada. 1 painting : oil on canvas. Image: 63.500 x 78.600 cm. Inscription: in brushpoint and black oil, verso c.: This portrait of Governor Simcoe was / painted from the original miniature which / was given by members of his family to the / Rev. Dr. Scadding; printed label laid down on stretcher, l.c. upside down: No.... / MACKENZIE & CO. / SUCCESSORS TO H.J. MA. ... EWS / IMPORTERS [rest of label missing]
Inscriptions: This portrait of Governor Simcoe was painted from the original miniature which was given by members of his family to the Rev. Dr. Scadding
Date of Original: c. 1900
Dimensions: Width: 63.5 cm
Height: 78.6 cm
Image Dimensions: Image Width: 482cm
Image Height: 585cm
Subject(s): Slavery
Toronto - History
Slavery -- Canada
John Graves Simcoe
Personal Name(s): Simcoe, John Graves
Local identifier: SNPL000089v00i
Collection: Six Nations Legacy Consortium Collection
Language of Item: English
Donor: Six Nations Legacy Consortium
Creative Commons licence: [more details]
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Location of Original: source: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-30-3
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