Rainbow [a.k.a. Ploughing, Ile d'Orleans] (c. 1912.), oil on wood, 54.6 x 75 cm., Art Fund, 1959 Sheep Resting (n.d.), watercolour on paper, 40 x 53.3 cm., purchased with funds from the Mitchell Bequest, 1958 Milk Carrier (n.d.), watercolour on paper, 47 x 33.7 cm., purchased with funds from the Mitchell Bequest, 1958 Horatio Walker (1858-1938) was born in Listowel, Ontario and died in St. Petronille, Quebec. His early art training was as an apprentice at the Toronto photography firm of Notman and Fraser under artists John A. Fraser and Robert Ford Gagen. Later he traveled in Europe where he was strongly influenced by the French Barbizon School of painting. In 1882, the young artist moved to the United States, first to Rochester and then to New York City. He spent each summer in Quebec on the Ile d'Orleans. His paintings were widely exhibited earning Walker membership in the American Watercolour Society, the (American) National Academy of Design, the Royal Canadian Academy and selection in several important international fairs where he won many influential honours and prizes. He adopted the style of the Barbizon School to work in oil and watercolour using floral, genre, landscape and some portrait subjects.