William Armstrong
William Armstrong was a Canadian painter.
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In this busy scene of a First Nations encampment, Hudson Bay Point, Lake Superior, William Armstrong painted a picture drawn from life (he had made sketches when he traveled there about 1859). The bristling trees that crown the background hills recall trees in other pictures he had made of Lake Superior, but the figures in the foreground peacefully going about their daily business - a man readying a canoe for action, a woman carrying a child on a cradleboard and a man fishing - suggest what existence was like for this family group. On the far shore are the dwellings of some members of their community. Coming into the scene on the right is a large boat of traders (possibly including Sir George Simpson). The work is a vignette of life for some Indigenous peoples during the nineteenth century, painted from the viewpoint of history, and reflects the mood and atmosphere of the Canadian landscape and in particular the skies of northern Ontario.