Jun 19 2008

A Painting By Leonard E. Kelsey

Jody posted this at 2:38 pm under art

I have this painting titled “Old English Home” by Leonard E. Kelsey, dated 1915. On the back is a label with the painting’s title, painter, and date, along with the sentence:

“CAP ROUGE” on the ST. LAWERE

I assume that’s the location the painting represents.

I know nothing about the painter or painting besides what’s obvious on the painting itself. Googling “leonard kelsey paint” turns up this reference to him from the Biographical Index of Artists in Canada:

KELSEY, Leonard Edgar b London 1883, d W Vancouver 1975, paint M MM RCA

He died an old man. I can’t find any other references to him or his paintings.

I think the painting’s title refers to Cap Rouge in Quebec, which is on the St. Lawrence river.


Email This Post Email This Post
Tags:

2 Responses to “A Painting By Leonard E. Kelsey”. Leave a Reply.

  1. # Peter Kelseyon 15 Sep 2008 at 9:09 pm

    Hello, as you can see I am a kelsey and a painter also, my parents have two water colour paintings done buy a Kelsey also fro England and I think he came to Canada not sure I just tried to call them to see which Kelsey it was that painted there paintings. e-mail me if you get this and I will find out. interesting to see other Kelsey Painters. and yours looks like the same style.

    Peter Kelsey

  2. # jodyon 16 Sep 2008 at 8:36 am

    And from your email address I see you’re in Newfoundland! Hell, we could be relatives.

Comments RSS

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Note: This post is over 3 months old. You may want to check later in this blog to see if there is new information relevant to your comment.

By submitting a comment here you grant this site a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web site in attribution.