Frederick Challener's family moved to Canada in 1870, but returned to England in 1876 where Frederick attended school, then came back to Canada permanently in 1883.
11 Facts About Frederick Challener
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Frederick Challener worked as an office boy for a business firm and drew individuals he saw from a window.
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In painting murals, Frederick Challener was part of a chapter in Canadian Art called Decorative Painting based on William Morris`s Arts and Crafts movement.
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Many artists, both before and after the society was formed, executed murals, only Frederick Challener was one of the few who made a career of it.
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In 1890, Frederick Challener became a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and he showed with the Society often from 1890 to 1951 and in the Canadian National Exhibition from about 1890 to 1947 as well as in many shows organized by the National Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Ontario.
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In 1891, Frederick Challener first exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and he showed with the academy almost every year thereafter until 1948.
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Frederick Challener received the bronze medal at the Pan American Exhibition for his painting The Workers of the Fields which he deposited in the Royal Canadian Academy diploma collection in the National Gallery of Canada.
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Frederick Challener worked in Toronto, but moved to Conestoga near Waterloo, in 1907, to Winnipeg from 1913 to 1916, then back to Toronto.
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Frederick Challener's painting Canada's Grand Armada depicts the first contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force sailing from the Gaspe in Quebec to Britain in 1914.
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Frederick Challener died in Toronto on September 30,1959, at the age of 90.
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Frederick Challener's paintings are in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Government of Ontario Art Collection, Toronto; the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa; and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.