Toll If You Please (1880), oil on canvas, 118.1 x 88.9 cm., gift of Martin and Mary O'Meara, London, 1998 Return of the Flock (1883), oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm., gift of Richard and Beryl Ivey, London, 1989 Covent Garden Market, London, Ontario (1883), oil on canvas, 69.6 x 93.3 cm., gift to the City of London by Mrs. Marjorie Barlow, London, 1969 The Modest Model (1889), oil on canvas, 146.7 x 114.3 cm., gift of the estate of Allan J. Wells with the assistance of the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board, 1990 The Young Botanist (1888-1890), oil on canvas, 114.9 x 91.4 cm., purchased with the assistance of the Richard and Jean Ivey Fund, London, 1987 Robert Andre Peel (c. 1892), oil on canvas, 129.5 x 97.8 cm., gift of Miss Marguerite Peel, Laguana Beach, California, 1965 Paul Peel (1860-1892) was born in London, Ontario and died in Paris, France. His early art training was provided in London by his father, John Robert Peel, and William Lees Judson then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia under Thomas Eakins. He later moved to Paris, France where he received art instruction at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Paul Gerome and at the Acadmie Julien under Benjamin Constant, Henri Doucet and Jules Lefebvre. He then traveled widely in Canada and Europe exhibiting as a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy. He also exhibited at international shows like the Paris Salon. Peel's work was very popular in both his lifetime and today. It is executed mainly in oil and employs genre, landscape, marine and portrait subjects. His conservative style reflected the official one then taught in the French government academies, but at the time of his death, Peel appeared to be changing his style toward impressionism.