Helen Vidal Harris(c. 1850), watercolour and graphite on paper, 63.5 x 53.3 cm., Eldon House, gift of the Harris Family, 1960 Edward William Harris (c. 1850), watercolour and graphite on paper, 63.5 x 53.3 cm., Eldon House, gift of the Harris Family, 1960 Amelia Andrini Harris (c. 1850), watercolour and graphite on paper, 63.5 x 53.3 cm., Eldon House, gift of the Harris Family, 1960 James Buckingham Wandesforde (1817-1902) was born in Scotland and emigrated to the Canadas at an unknown date. He had settled in the Goderich area of the Huron Tract where he operated a sawmill at Trelawney between 1847 to 1857. In the idle winter months, he became an itinerant artist who sought out portrait commissions throughout this region and often visited London. Wandesforde portraits are frequently in watercolour and occasionally executed on ivory in the British academic style. Some of his work was shown at the Upper Canada Provincial Exhibition at London in 1855. The artist eventually moved to the United States continuing his itinerant journeys, first to the New York City area and other centres before finally relocating to San Francisco, California. There he became the first president of the San Francisco Art Association in 1872.