Portrait of Louisa Jane Ridout (c. 1858), oil on linen, 58.8 x 43.2 cm., gift of the Misses Pennington, London, 1976 Portrait of Lionel Ridout (1857), oil on linen, 76.2 x 63.5 cm., gift of the Misses Pennington, London, 1976 George Theodore Berthon (1806-1892) was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Toronto, Ontario. He received his artistic training under his father, Rene Theodore Berthon, court painter to Napoleon I, and is said to have been apprenticed to portraiture under Jacques-Louis David. The artist first came to Canada in 1837 and finally settled in Toronto in 1844. There he became the dominant portrait painter and was elected to the Ontario Society of Artists and a founding member of the Royal Canadian Academy. His portraits show the influence of his French teachers and the fashionable academic style of contemporary British portraiture.