Recherche dans la collection - Robert Auchmuty Sproule

Frame backing was inscribed, verso, by the donor :

Robert Auchmuty Sproule - self portrait / Born 1799 in Athlone, Ireland emigrated to Canada in the late 1820s / Died 28 November 1845 - age 46 / in Township of March - Upper Canada / Married Jane Hopper / Daughter of Arthur Hopper / in Montreal, near Montreal, / Lower Canada, at the Hopper Home on Sat. Oct. 8th 1831 / painter of miniatures and miniatures on ivory / and many scenes of Montreal and Quebec City (now held at McCord Museum of McGill / McGill / University, Montreal./ Father of Anne Sproule Farley (Born 2nd March / 1834, in Cornwall / Upper Canada) / Grand father of Thomas Ernest Farley Sr. / Great grandfather of Thomas Ernest Farley Jr. / Great great great grand father of Hilary Anne Sproule Farley.