🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Ontario Canada Mining Town Archives Help

[Cariboo5]

Hoping someone will have better luck than I have had in searching the archives, Toronto public library etc in Ontario in regards
to old mining towns or mining locations. I am trying to find a picture of main street that matches the main street in a oil on board painting
I have that came from Ontario. I believe this is from the 19th century and usually the artist paints what they see at the time. E. Healey is not a well known
artist which makes this a bit more difficult to track down. This is a long shot and all help is appreciated... Thanks in advance...

 

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[Red-Coat]

I’ve never heard of “E.Healey”, but nevertheless it’s not his original work and probably not painted in the 19th Century. It’s copied from a work by the Canadian/American artist Frederick William Hutchison (1871 - 1953). He was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied at: the Art Association School of Montreal; the Chase School in New York City; and the Julian Academy in Paris, France. He moved to New York in 1905 and taught at the College of the City of New York, before becoming Art Supervisor at the Townsend Harris Hall School where he remained until his retirement in 1939.

Hutchison mainly painted Canadian landscapes, especially of the Hudson area (his family home was in Hudson Heights) and Charlevoix County, but in the 1920s he also toured Europe and painted some scenes there.

Lithograph of the original were presented to all members of the Salmagundi Club (New York’s oldest art club) at their 1936 dinner. One example sold below, but it’s not titled, beyond it being of “a village in the snow”. Note that the attribution in the listing misspells his name as “Hutchinson”.

https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/3008T/lots/1066