Springbank Park (1880), oil on canvas, 55.9 x 92.7 cm., gift of Mrs. Jessie Minhinnick, London, 1982 Henry Nesbitt McEvoy (1826-1914) was born in Birmingham, England and died at Detroit, Michigan. His early art education is unknown but he may have received some training at the Birmingham Art School before he emigrated to the United States in the early 1860s. He soon appeared in Canada as an itinerant, moving regularly between Toronto, Hamilton and London. McEvoy taught oil painting and worked as a compiler of merchant directories. His style is typical of the British picturesque school: landscape and some portrait subjects executed in oil.