John Hicks Whale
John Hicks Whale was born in 1829 in Liskeard, England and is the son of Robert Reginald Whale’s brother Thomas. John Hicks came to Canada in the early 1850s and in 1856 married his cousin, Mary, Robert Reginald Whale's daughter. Despite working mainly as a house painter and decorator, John Hicks received prizes for many of the landscapes, portraits, and animal, marine, and historical paintings he presented at local fairs in Southern Ontario towns such as Paris, Brantford, Norwich, and New Durham. John Hicks died in Brantford in 1905.
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Title: Old Kirby Mill
Date: n.d.
Medium: oil on canvas
Accession no: 975.24
Credit line: Gift of Mr. Earl Brown, Brantford
Title: Old Kirby Mill (study for a larger painting)
Date: 1902
Medium: watercolour on paper
Accession no: 975.25
Credit line: Gift of Earl Brown
Title: Wreck on the Cornish Coast
Date: 1953
Medium: oil on canvas
Accession no: 983.04
Credit line: Gift of Richard Ivey Foundation
Title: Marsh Birds
Date: 1878
Medium: oil on canvas
Accession no: 2003.02
Credit line:
Title: Oliver Cromwell
Date: 1871
Medium: oil on canvas
Accession no: 2017.04
Credit line: Gift of William Eric Day