20.5" x 16"

CUSTOM FRAMED AND MATTED PLATE SIGNED OFFSET LITHOGRAPH.

The Original oil was painted in 1890 and became a gift of the Government of the Province of Ontario in 1972 to the Art Gallery of Ontario. Peel was born in London, Ontario, and received his art training from his father from a young age.He then moved to Paris in 1881, France where he received art instruction at the École des Beaux-Arts In 1882, he married Isaure Verdier. They had two children; a son (Robert Andre, in 1886) and a daughter (Emilie Marguerite, in 1888. Peel travelled widely in Canada and in Europe, exhibiting as a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He also exhibited at international shows like the Paris Salon, where he won a bronze medal in 1890 for his painting After the Bath.He was known for his often sentimental nudes and for his pictures of children; he was among the first Canadian painters to explore the nude as a subject.He contracted a lung infection and died in his sleep, in Paris, France, at the young age of 31.