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Sir Edmund Wyly Grier, RCA (November 26, 1862 – December 7, 1957) was an Australian born Canadian portrait painter. He studied in London at the Slade School of Art under Alphonse Legros, in Rome at the Scuola Libera del Nudo, and in Paris at the Académie Julian under Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. He exhibited from 1886 to 1895 at the Royal Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy. In 1891 he returned to Canada to stay, opening a portrait studio in Toronto. Grier won recognition and admission to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp )〕 becoming its president in 1929. He painted numerous portraits of politicians, corporate leaders and other notable contemporaries, his first commissioned portrait being in 1888 and his last in 1947. In 1935, he was made a Knight Bachelor by the government of Richard Bedford Bennett. In 1937 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Corresponding Academician. ==Gallery== File:Portrait of James Bain, D.C.L. (1909).jpg|Toronto city librarian James Bain, 1909 File:Lionel Herbert Clarke.jpg|Lieut. Governor Lionel Herbert Clarke, 1921 File:William David Black.jpg|Speaker William David Black, 1930 File:GHMurrayByEdmund Wyly Grier.png| George Henry Murray, Province House (Nova Scotia) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edmund Wyly Grier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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