Lot #66: C.1930 J W Beatty "Late Afternoon Garden Hill Ontario" Deco Framed Art Print

J. W. Beatty RCA (in full, John William Beatty) (18691941) was a Canadian painter[1] who was a forerunner in the movement which became the Group of Seven in 1920.Early Painting LifeAblain-St. Nazaire by Beatty in the collection of the Canadian War Museum.Beatty was born on May 30, 1869, and went to school in Toronto, Ontario.[2] He was a member of the volunteers who served in the North-West Rebellion in 1885, then worked in the Toronto Fire Department (18691900).[3] In his leisure time, he studied art with George Agnew Reid and other teachers.[3] In 1900, he studied at the Acadmie Julian in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant.[4] He travelled throughout Europe from 1906 to 1909, painted at the Acadmie Julian and Acadmie Colarossi, and travelled to London where he attended the London Chelsea Polytechnic