BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
Sometime between 1903 and 1907 she emigrated to Canada, where she started an advertising and commercial illustration company with Glyneth Rochfort, called Rochfort & Daniell. An advertisement in Westward Ho magazine in 1907 stated that they did work "for every description of advertising & commercial" and that "we guarantee all of our work to be absolutely original." The business address was 311 Hastings Street, Vancouver.
She began painting BC scenes and people, and exhibited her artwork in Vancouver starting at least as early as 1909 with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts' debut First Annual Exhibition at the Dominion Hall in Vancouver. She was a Charter Member of the Society. In the Society's Second Exhibition she exhibited a portrait of Miss Lilette Rebbeck, a woman who had studied under Emily Carr as a child, and who would go on to marry Edward Mahon and lead a prominent life in BC art and politics.
From 1910 to 1912 Daniell showed her work in exhibitions of the Island Arts and Crafts Society.
She wrote an article titled "Fostering British Columbia Art" that was published in Opportunities" magazine in 1911. The article was later reprinted in The Gold Stripe - Volume Two, May 1919.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
1909 April 20 - 28 | BCSFA First Annual Exhibition | Victoria Harbour |
1909 Oct. 27- Nov. 6 | Studio Club Autumn Exhibition | The Lake, Metchosin, B.C. |
Across the Lagoon | ||
1909 November | BCSFA Second Exhibition | Mrs. Foll (miniature) |
Miss Lilette Rebbeck | ||
1910 September | IACS 1st Annual Exhibition | In the Forest, B.C. |
Daisy Chains | ||
Spring at Metchosin | ||
The Great Glacier | ||
Waiting | ||
My Sister | ||
Valley of the Illecillewaet | ||
At Glacier, B.C. | ||
A Grey Day in the Illecillewaet Valley | ||
Cheiro | ||
Florence | ||
Sketch for Portrait of John Gordon Duff | ||
Rose | ||
1911 November | BCSFA Fall Exhibition | ("rocky and wooded shore") |
Capilano Canyon | ||
1917 Sept. 14 - 22 | BCSFA Eleventh Exhibition | Portrait of Mrs. Innes Hopkins |
ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors
THE DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARTISTS 1880 - 1940 (refer to DBA76)
"Among other artists who have done successful figure and portrait work, may be mentioned
Miss Mason and Mrs. Bampfylde Daniell, of Victoria, both of whom
have done credit to their artistic training by works which have been exhibited in the Royal
Academy, London. Mrs. Daniell's early taste for art led to her removal from Devonshire -
her birthplace - to the artistic circles of the metropolis, where, under specially
favorable conditions, she pursued her studies under the care of many famous Royal
Academicians."
From "Art in British Columbia" by
Bernard McEvoy
Opportunities Magazine, 1910
"This article would not be complete without some mention of the Island
Arts Club of Victoria, which has recently held its first exhibition, and in the
promotion of which Mrs. Bampfylde Daniell has been a most valuable worker."
From "Art in British Columbia" by
Bernard McEvoy
Opportunities Magazine, 1910
"Of oil paintings, which are still too few, ... a study of interlacing creeks on a
rocky and wooded shore, which was noticeable for its fidelity to British Columbian
coloring. (No. 77) by Mrs. Daniell, who has also a commendable
large study of Capilano Canyon, which was unfortunately hung in an impossible light."
From "Some Pictures by B.C. Artists" by
A.N. St. John Mildmay
News Advertiser, November 21 1911
"The largest canvas exhibited, "Capilano Canyon," by
Mrs. Bampfield Daniel, is majestic in its depth and distance."
From "Fine Arts Society Makes Fine Exhibit"
Vancouver Daily World, November 23 1911