Rooftops, back of University Street
30.5 cms x 40.6 cms (12 ins x 16 ins)
Signed lower right; titled to two gallery labels on the reverse
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "Cities & Towns (Online Auction)" held on Tue, Jul 19, 2022.
Lot 41206
Lot 41206
Estimate: CAD $800 - $1,200
Realised: CAD $2,280
Realised: CAD $2,280
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Kastel Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Notes:
William Thurston Topham was born in Spondon, England, on July 23, 1888, to William Topham, a provision merchant, and Lucinda Mary Dale, who died when he was four years old. He first served as an apprentice to L.L. Goldie, a Derby architect, learning watercolour painting, interior decoration, and architectural design; however, hoping to become an artist, he took classes at the Derby Municipal School of Art in the evenings. In 1908 his aunt, Anne Topham, an English governess to Kaiser Wilhelm's daughter, invited him to Berlin, where he worked for the architects Schwitters and Bothke. Again he took evening classes, this time at the Arthur Lewin-Funcke School of Art, which was modelled on the Academie Julian in Paris. The following year he spent time in Paris and then joined H.H. Martyn Co. in Cheltenham, England. In 1911 he immigrated to Montreal, where he decorated interiors and designed period furniture for the Bromsgrove Guild.
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Kastel Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Notes:
William Thurston Topham was born in Spondon, England, on July 23, 1888, to William Topham, a provision merchant, and Lucinda Mary Dale, who died when he was four years old. He first served as an apprentice to L.L. Goldie, a Derby architect, learning watercolour painting, interior decoration, and architectural design; however, hoping to become an artist, he took classes at the Derby Municipal School of Art in the evenings. In 1908 his aunt, Anne Topham, an English governess to Kaiser Wilhelm's daughter, invited him to Berlin, where he worked for the architects Schwitters and Bothke. Again he took evening classes, this time at the Arthur Lewin-Funcke School of Art, which was modelled on the Academie Julian in Paris. The following year he spent time in Paris and then joined H.H. Martyn Co. in Cheltenham, England. In 1911 he immigrated to Montreal, where he decorated interiors and designed period furniture for the Bromsgrove Guild.
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