Percy Franklin Woodcock (1855)

Born 17 Aug 1855 in Athens (Farmerville), Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Aloysia (Pratt) Woodcock — married 17 Jun 1878 in Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Biography

Percy Woodcock was born in Leeds County in 1855. He was the son of Eli Woodcock and Phoebe Wiltsie. He married Aloysia Pratt.

Montreal Artist Exhibited at Salon Works in National Gallery of Canada Percy Franklin Woodcock, R.C.A., well-known Canadian artist, three of whose works, hang in the National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa, died at his residence, the Windsor Hotel, at 6.30 o'clock last night after an illness of some duration. He was in his 81st year.

Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. The son of Rev. Eli Woodcock and Phoebiann Wiltsie, he was born at Farmersville, Ontario on August 17, 1855, was educated at Albert College, Belleville, Ontario, and studied for his profession in England, France and Holland. While in Paris he was for over four years a pupil of Gerome in L'Ecole des Beaux Arts and, subsequently, studied for a period of two years under Benjamin Constant.

Some of his best paintings of that period were "Portrait of Miss M," "The Abandoned Bird's Nest" and "Returning from the Well." They were all exhibited at the Paris Salon. More recently he had exhibited in the National Academy of Design in New York, besides the more important exhibitions throughout Canada. He was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1886.

He married Aloysia Pratt, daughter of the late John Pratt, of Montreal, who was president of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company. They had three children, all of whom predeceased them.

For many years the late Sir William Van Home was a close personal friend of Mr. Woodcock's. In adding to the famous Van Home collection of paintings. Sir William often sought the artist's advice. His work is represented in the permanent collection of the Nation al Gallery of Canada, by "Near Chateauguay," "An Ontario Farm," and "Returning from the Well."

Mr. Woodcock made his home in Montreal in the Windsor Hotel where he had resided for the past 25 years. During the past four years he had not enjoyed good health and frequently journey south to enjoy more temperate climate. Besides his wife, he is survived by one brother, E. Clayton Woodcock, of East Orange, New Jersey.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ PERCY F. WOODCOCK DEAD IN 81ST YEAR The Gazette, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 12 Feb 1936, Wed • Page 18

History of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario from 1749-1879, page 91

Rev Eli Woodcock, was born near the Bay of Quinte, in 1823, entering the ministry in 1853. He is the son of Peter Woodcock, a U.E. Loyalist and the grandson of Nicholas Woodcock, who emigrated from Black River to Canada about 1785, settling in the County of Lanark; and dying in 1835, having reached the ripe age of nearly one hundred years. Mr Woodcock (Eli) has a son, Percy, a young man who has already distinguished himself as a portrait painter, and is at the present time pursuing his art studies in Paris."

• 1881 Census Newburgh, Addington, Ontario, Canada Family 97, Page 18, with parents Elli Woodcock Minister Married and his Wife Pheobe A. Woodcock; Percey W. Woodcock M 23 Ontario English Meth E
• BURIAL Percy Franklin Woodcock BIRTH 17 Aug 1855 Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada DEATH 11 Feb 1936 (aged 80) Montreal, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada buried Cimetière Mont-Royal, Outremont, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada Find A Grave: Memorial #108221431

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