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They had a son Thomas Harvey Bamford, who was born in Victoria on September 28, 1897. He died in Victoria on April 27 1980, married to Evelyn G. Bamford.
Bamford later worked as a surveyor from the 1890s until he retired in 1926. He was considered an authority on B.C. Timber (Harper).
He exhibited a number of paintings in the First Annual Exhibition of the Vancouver Art Association in 1890.
In 1903 Bamford exhibited one watercolour titled "Foul Bay, Victoria" with the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. It was priced at $30.00. His address was listed as Victoria, B.C.
He exhibited his paintings with the Island Arts & Crafts Society from 1910 until 1938. He exhibited work at the 1930 Spring Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts.
In 1932 Bamford was a signatory to an agreement to boycott the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa for their exhibition and purchase policies related to Canadian artists. He was noted as being a Victoria artist.
His work was included in two Vancouver Island Exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1933 and 1939 (see exhibition listings).
He also showed his work at the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Ontario Art Gallery, and with the Ontario Society of Artists.
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BAMFORD, Thomas 210 Government St., Victoria, B.C. Painter (oil; water color) - Born Liverpool, Eng., Feb. 4, 1861. Pupil of Liverpool School of Art. Member: Island Arts and Crafts Society, Victoria. Exhibitor at Vancouver Art Gallery; Ontario Society of Artists; Ottawa Art Gallery. |
| DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
| 1889 June | V.A.A. Loan Exhibition | ("some very clever paintings") |
| 1890 October 6 - 11 | V.A.A. 1st Annual Exhibition | Sunset on Koksilah River |
| Waterfront, Victoria Harbour | ||
| Sunrise Over the Old Town | ||
| Perennial Phlox | ||
| Dahlias | ||
| Study of Flowers | ||
| Study of Gladiolas | ||
| Mending the Sail | ||
| Chemainus River | ||
| A Breezy Day in San Juan Straits | ||
| Crescent Island, Fraser River | ||
| Finlayson's Battery | ||
| Near Macaulay Point | ||
| Foul Bay | ||
| Sunlight in Victoria Harbor | ||
| Cowichan River | ||
| Chinese Ranch | ||
| Rainy Day, Fraser River | ||
| Evening, from James' Bay | ||
| Stormy Day, Macaulay Bay | ||
| Mt. Baker, Early Morning | ||
| At Oak Bay | ||
| Sumas Lake | ||
| In the Woods, Beacon Hill | ||
| The Cliffs, Beacon Hill | ||
| The Golden Ears, Fraser River | ||
| Evening in the Woods | ||
| A Grey Morning, Foul Bay | ||
| Fisherman's Rock | ||
| Ross Bay | ||
| Sunrise at Oak Bay | ||
| Koksilah River | ||
| Fishing Village | ||
| The Olympians | ||
| Saanich Arm | ||
| Beacon Hill | ||
| Sailor Bay | ||
| Cadboro Bay | ||
| 1903 | CNE Toronto Annual Exhibition | Foul Bay, Victoria |
| 1910 September | IACS 1st Annual Exhibition | A Grey Day |
| Strawberry Vale | ||
| Breaking Wave | ||
| Mount Arrowsmith from Denman Island | ||
| October Afternoon, Beacon Hill Park | ||
| Autumn, Beacon Hill Park | ||
| Early Morning, Cowichan Bay | ||
| Riverside, Cowichan Lake | ||
| Afternoon, Beacon Hill Park | ||
| Breezy Weather | ||
| Alders | ||
| September | ||
| Rocks Near Dallas Road | ||
| Denman Island | ||
| Low Tide Early Morning | ||
| 1911 Oct. 5 - 7 | IACS Alexandra Club 2nd Annual | October, Beacon Hill Park |
| Trial Island | ||
| Hall Creek, B.C. | ||
| Mt. Baker from Shoal Bay | ||
| Phillips Arm | ||
| Chinese Gardens | ||
| Low Tide | ||
| Gonzales Point | ||
| August Afternoon | ||
| Ross Bay | ||
| Afternoon Breeze | ||
| The Old Battery | ||
| Colquitz River | ||
| Colquitz River | ||
| Spring Morning | ||
| Under the Oaks | ||
| 1912 Oct. 17 - 19 | IACS Alexandra Club 3rd Annual | Tynemouth |
| The Fish Quay, Whitby | ||
| Old Tower, Lynmouth | ||
| East Cliff, Whitby | ||
| The New Quay, Whitby | ||
| Conway Castle | ||
| Edinburgh Castle | ||
| Cullercotes | ||
| 1913 Oct. 16 - 18 | IACS Alexandra Club 4th Annual | Courtyard to Skipton Castle |
| Old Houses, Clovelly | ||
| The Old Town, Whitby | ||
| Tin Ghant, Whitby | ||
| Fish Market, Clovelly | ||
| Durham Cathedral | ||
| Wallflowers | ||
| Street in Clovelly | ||
| Whitby | ||
| 1914 Nov. 19 - 21 | IACS Alexandra Club 5th Annual | Goldstream |
| Lledr Bridge, N.W. | ||
| Goldstream | ||
| Patricia Bay | ||
| On the Wear, Durham | ||
| Old Elvet Bridge, Durham | ||
| Ilfracombe Harbor | ||
| River Wear, Durham | ||
| Admiral Rodney Lane, Ilfracombe | ||
| Old Bakehouse Close, Edinburgh | ||
| 1915 Nov. 23 - 27 | IACS Union Bank Building. 6th Annual | Beacon Hill |
| The Willows | ||
| Colquitz River | ||
| Haymakers | ||
| Jesmond Dene | ||
| Whitby Harbor | ||
| Red Lion Inn, Clovelly | ||
| Edinburgh Castle, From the Vennels | ||
| Union Bay | ||
| Skekomish River | ||
| Goldstream | ||
| 1916 Oct. 24 - 28 | IACS Union Bank Building 7th Annual | Sproat Lake Falls |
| Little Qualicum Falls | ||
| Miller River, Washington | ||
| Cameron Lake, Eveninv | ||
| Phillips Arm, B.C. | ||
| Great Central Lake | ||
| Stamp River Falls | ||
| The Pool | ||
| Colquitz River | ||
| Summer Afternoon | ||
| Storm Blown | ||
| Evening | ||
| Pasture | ||
| The Gravel Pit | ||
| 1917 Oct. 23 - 27 | IACS Pemberton Building 8th Annual | Falls on Campbell River |
| Koksilah River | ||
| Colquitz River | ||
| Cowichan River | ||
| Qualicum Beach | ||
| Conway Castle | ||
| Indian Reserve, Cowichan Bay | ||
| Wild Hemlock | ||
| Pasture Land | ||
| The Boneyard | ||
| 1918 Jan. 14 - 18 | IACS Pemberton Building 9th Annual | Cowichan Flats |
| Clovelly Harbor | ||
| Old Mill, Jesmond Dean | ||
| River Mersey From Aigburth | ||
| Niasses Beach | ||
| Qualicum Beach | ||
| 1920 Oct. 25 - 30 | IACS Belmont Building 11th Annual | Whitby Harbour |
| The Old Barn | ||
| Whitby | ||
| Hillsboro, Illfracombe | ||
| Phillips River | ||
| Clovelly, North Devon | ||
| Rumswick Bay, Yorkshire | ||
| Stillaquamish River, Washington | ||
| Koksilah River | ||
| Shoal Bay | ||
| Niasses Bay | ||
| 1921 Oct. 18 - 25 | IACS Belmont Building 12th Annual | Mornings Mists |
| Eagle Peak, Washington | ||
| Perry Creek, Washington | ||
| Mt. Arrowsmith | ||
| Monte Cristo, Washington | ||
| Stillaquamish River, Washington | ||
| Stillaquamish Valley, Washington | ||
| Hall's Peak, Cascade Range | ||
| 1922 Oct. 19 - 25 | IACS Belmont Building 13th Annual | Clapp Passage |
| Finger Mountain | ||
| Thompson Sound | ||
| Stillaquamish River, Washington | ||
| Tribune Channel | ||
| Corfields | ||
| Seymour River | ||
| 1923 Oct. 23 - 30 | IACS H.B.C. Building 14th Annual | River Weir, Durham |
| Mill on the Weir | ||
| Corfields | ||
| Old Watch Tower, Lynmouth | ||
| Mt. Baker | ||
| 1926 Oct. 19 - 30 | IACS Crystal Garden 17th Annual | Seymour River, Evening |
| Durham | ||
| Colquitz River | ||
| Solitude | ||
| 1927 Oct. 25 - 31 | IACS Belmont Building 18th Annual | Gonzales |
| Fish Wharf, Whitby | ||
| Before the Storm | ||
| Grey Rocks and Greyer Sea | ||
| Stillqguamish River, Washington | ||
| Jesmond Dean | ||
| Autumn, Beacon Hill | ||
| Perry Creek, Washington | ||
| Sunset, Yorkshire Coast | ||
| Colquitz River | ||
| Seymour Inlet | ||
| 1928 Oct. 23 - 31 | IACS Belmont Building 19th Annual | Forest Groves |
| Conway Castle | ||
| Argument Yard, Whitby | ||
| The Mooring, Esquimalt | ||
| Boat Landing, Esquimalt | ||
| Cameron Lake | ||
| Clover Point | ||
| Colquitz River | ||
| Willow Pool | ||
| Cadboro | ||
| Victoria Harbour | ||
| Old Ferry, Esquimalt | ||
| 1929 Oct. 22 - 31 | IACS Belmont Building 20th Annual | Morning, Uplands |
| Evening, Dallas Road | ||
| The Haymakers | ||
| The Maples, Esquimalt | ||
| Mereworth Sound | ||
| Saanich Arm | ||
| The Wheat Field | ||
| Monte Christo Basin | ||
| 1930 May 31 - June 14 | BCSFA Spring Exhibition | The Wheat Field |
| Seymour Inlet | ||
| 1930 Aug. 6 - 16 | VanExh Oil Paintings & Water-colours | Whitby Harbour |
| Evening, Dallas Road, Victoria | ||
| 1930 Aug. 22 - Sept. 6 | CNE WC | Seymour Inlet |
| 1930 Oct. 28 - Nov. 8 | IACS Board of Trade Building 21st Annual | Corfields |
| Old Riverside | ||
| Indian Reserve, Cowichan Bay | ||
| Autumn, Beacon Hill | ||
| Early Morning, Cowichan | ||
| In Victoria Harbour | ||
| Phillips River, B.C. | ||
| Goldstream | ||
| 1931 Oct. 20 - 31 | IACS Belmont Building 22nd Annual | Ardmore |
| Falls on Stillaquamish River | ||
| Thompson Sound | ||
| Mereworth Sound | ||
| Frederick Arm | ||
| Uplands in Spring | ||
| Alpine Meadows | ||
| In Victoria Harbour | ||
| 1932 Oct. 11 - 22 | IACS Belmont Building 23rd Annual | Mill Stream |
| Daisy Field | ||
| Green Pastures | ||
| Short Sands, Tynemouth | ||
| Oak Bay | ||
| The Old Cathedral | ||
| Elbet Bridge | ||
| 1933 Mar. 3 - 15 | VAG IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition | The Old Cathedral |
| Whitby Harbour | ||
| Green Pastures | ||
| 1933 Oct. 24 - Nov. 4 | IACS Belmont House 24th Annual | Casa Manana |
| Blakesley Garden, Santa Barbara | ||
| The Cliffs, Laguna Beach | ||
| Casa Della Guerra | ||
| Laguna Beach | ||
| Pala Mission | ||
| Santiago Mission | ||
| Pala Mission | ||
| 1934 Oct. 22 - 27 | IACS Belmont House 25th Annual | O Jai Valley |
| Natural Arch, Sunset Cliffs | ||
| El Jardin Patio | ||
| San Juan, Cadistrana Mission | ||
| Torrey Pines | ||
| Laguna Beach | ||
| 1935 Nov. 4 - 9 | IACS Belmont House 26th Annual | The Purple Sage |
| Eucalyptus Trees | ||
| Rocky Shore | ||
| Waste Places | ||
| Sunset Cliffs | ||
| Edge of the Desert | ||
| 1938 Oct. 20 - 29 | IACS Belmont House 29th Annual | The Gatewy, Pala Mission |
| Whitby Harbour | ||
| Sunset Cliffs | ||
| Natural Arch, Cal. | ||
| Seymour Inlet | ||
| Ojai Valley | ||
| 1939 Mar. 14 - 26 | VAG IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition | Wheatfields in Saanich |
| Green Pastures |
WHO'S WHO IN NORTHWEST ART (refer to WWNA41)
IMPRESSIONS OF AN AGE (refer to VCM69)
EARLY PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS IN CANADA (refer to H70)
CONTEMPORARIES OF EMILY CARR IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (refer to SFU74)
ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors
FROM DESOLATION TO SPLENDOUR (refer to FDTS77)
One Bamford w/c illustrated in colour p. 61; biographical information p.63
AN EXHIBITION OF OUR COLLECTION OF EARLY WESTERN CANADIAN WATERCOLORS (refer to UL78)
ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA
(refer to BIAC03)
4 references cited for Bamford.
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY - B.C. ARTISTS FILES (refer to VPL)
CITY & PROVINCIAL DIRECTORIES 1899 (refer to DIR)
B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE marriage certificate, death listed only, son's death (refer to BCVS)
" ... The principal artists belonging to those associations are ...
T. Bamford, Victoria, landscape and portrait painter in oil and
water colors, a native of Liverpool, England - studied under John Finney,
Art Academy, Liverpool, and at the Boston Art School ..."
ARTS & SCIENCES, History of British Columbia
William Briggs, Toronto, Ontario, 1894
" ... the 118 artists who have signed the agreement to date
... include ... Thos. Bamford ... "
From "Canadian Artists Unite to Boycott
National Gallery" by The Canadian Press
Montreal Gazette, December 8 1932
Obituary
Victoria Times, February 28 1941