Rippled Water, Temagami (1931), oil on canvas, 101.6 x 76.2 cm., gift of Mrs. Mary Wrinch Reid, Toronto, 1950 Portrait of a Model (c. 1896), oil on canvas, 61 x 50.8 cm., gift of Mrs. Mary Wrinch Reid, Toronto, 1950 Reverie [a.k.a. Portrait of Mary Hiester Reid] (c. 1885), oil on canvas, 61 x 45.7 cm., gift of Mrs. Mary Wrinch Reid, Toronto, 1950 George Agnew Reid (1860-1947) was born near Wingham, Ontario and died in Toronto, Ontario. As a young man, he met artist, William Nicoll Cresswell' and decided to learn oil painting. He soon moved to Toronto to take evening classes run by the Ontario Society of Artists and then attended the Ontario School of Art under Robert Harris. Next he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and studied under Thomas Eakins. Later he traveled to Paris, France to train at the Academy Julien under Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. In Toronto, Reid played a major teaching role first through private lessons and later at the Ontario College of Art where he eventually became principal. He held important roles in various exhibition groups like the Royal Canadian Academy, the Ontario Society of Artists and the Art Association of Montreal. Reid was a founder of the Association of Canadian Etchers, the Toronto Guild of Civic Art (which promoted mural painting), the Art Museum of Toronto (now Art Gallery of Ontario), the Associated Watercolour Painters and the Canadian Society of Applied Arts. His media were etching, oil, pastel and watercolour with genre, landscape, mural and portrait subjects. Reid's style was academic but was originally criticized for his broad oil painting technique.