Brief Biography-Horatio Walker was born in Listowel, Ontario, to French and English parents in 1858. He learned the fundamentals of watercolour while working at a photographic firm in Toronto, followed by a visit to Europe, where the Barbizon school impressed him most. Walker set up a studio in New York in 1878 and moved between it and his residence near Quebec until his retirement in 1928. His works were a considerable success in America, and he became a founding member and president of the Canadian Art Club and many other notable academies.