Master Painter

Thomas Mower Martin was one of the pioneer artists who helped form the Ontario Society of Artists, was the first Director of the Art School (now the Ontario College of Art)  and soon after he taught there.1880 he was a founding and charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art (RCA). He hosted Oscar Wilde on a Toronto visit; traveled extensively throughout Ontario and eastwards to sketch and paint landscapes, wildlife and native scenes just as they were. 

Thomas, a draughtsman in England was designing houses and studied art at the School of Kensington in London. But he was largely self taught. He, and his wife Emma, immigrated to pioneer and homestead in Muskoka, Ontario; poor farming land led him a year later, now with the first child of nine to be, to resettle in Toronto; failing to find work, or a business likely to succeed, he drew on his youth time hobby to be a full-time artist, which lasted until his death at 96 in 1934.

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