| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
Book - Indian Legends of Vancouver Island
| This early book with a suede leather cover was one of the more unusual items in my collection. Jacques Semeyn was an early BC artist about whom very little seems to be known. Janet Bingham comments in her book "Samuel Maclure Architect" on page 95 of the paperback, that a hallway in Hatley Castle was "painted by a young Dutch artist, Jacobus Semeyn (q.v.), from Amsterdam, who was trying to establish himself in the art world of Victoria, and the commission was probably arranged for him by Maclure as a characteristic means of encouragement." |
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