Frederick Nicholas Loveroff

Frederick Loveroff (or F. N. Loveroff as he was also known) (1894 August12, 1959) was a painter, known for his landscapes and scenes of Canadian farms.

Career Loveroff was born in Terpeniye village, Kars region, Russia. His mother died when he was young and his father, a Doukhobor farmer, took him to live in Petrofka village, west of Rosthern, Saskatchewan in 1899. After studies at a Quaker school in Pennsylvania, he worked his own homestead near Borden, Saskatchewan.

During winter nights on the homestead, he taught himself watercolour and seeing one of these works, Colonel Perret, the Principal of his school, the Normal School in Regina, interested D. A. Dunlap, a Toronto mining magnate, in sponsoring an art education for the young man.

Record prices at auction A work by Loveroff, Evening, Algonquin, an oil on board, 8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cms), estimated at the Cowley-Abbott auction in Toronto at $3,000.00-$5,000.00 had a price realized of $38,520.00, December 14, 2021.