Robert Auchmuty Sproule

Robert Auchmuty Sproule was an early artist in Canada, known through prints made from his watercolours. His prints were the beginning of lithography in the colony.

Biography Sproule was born in Athlone, Ireland, second son of Commander Thomas Sproule RN and his wife Marianne (nee Ardesoif). He emigrated to Lower Canada in 1826 and established himself as an artist who made miniatures in Montreal, advertising that he had studied art in London and Dublin. the National Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and in England, the National Trust Collections, and elsewhere.