Frances Anne Hopkins Canoes In Fog 1869 Matted Framed 29x23 Lake Superior

The voyageur and the lakes and streams that were his highways during the heyday of the fur trade have been depicted with beauty and accuracy in this painting.


Paper size 27 3/4" x 21 3/4", image size 21 5/8" x 11 5/8"


This oil painting shows three North canoes entering the mist of the great inland sea. About twenty-five feet in length and manned by a crew of eight or nine, these birch-bark canoes were designed for rapid travel on streams broken by falls, or where portages were long and numerous. The artist has depicted herself as a passenger in the nearest canoe.


In the collections of the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta (ACC. NO. 55.81.1)



Frances Anne (Beechey) Hopkins (1838-1918) brought the authenticity of experience to her painting. Born in England, the granddaughter of the note portraitist Sir William Beechey, she married Edward Martin Hopkins in 1858. For about a decade Hopkins traveled the age-old canoe routes of Canada, accompanying her husband