Percyval Tudor-Hart

Percyval Tudor-Hart (27 December 1873 June08, 1954) was a Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher and restorer of paintings.

Career Percyval Tudor-Hart was born in Montreal, Canada. He studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and then at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1894 with Gérôme whom he admired.

After World War I, he exhibited work at the Royal Academy in London and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

After his marriage, he returned to Canada and lived with his wife in her villa located at 2141 Saint-Louis Road, which was designated a historical monument in 1975 and today has been restored, especially the workshop, house and historic gardens, by the National Capital Commission of Quebec.

He died in Quebec City in 1954.

In 1943, the Musée de la Province de Québec (today the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec) held a retrospective exhibition of his work which was favorably reviewed.

Selected public collections His works are well represented in UK public collections, including the Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Ashmolean Museum, Birmingham Museums Trust, Ferens Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, and Walker Art Gallery. The Imperial War Museum also holds objects based on Tudor-Hart's camouflage designs.

In France, his work is in the Musée d'Orsay and Pompidou Centre.

In Canada, his work is in the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa and Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.