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The Pioneer Art Gallery is art headquarters for British Columbia. The house
was founded in 1886 by Mr. Theo. R. Hardiman, the present proprietor,
who has from the beginning been the purveyor of art goods for Vancouver
and the Mainland of the Province. Mr. Hardiman carries a well assorted and attractive stock of etchings, engravings, pastel and water-color pictures, and takes orders for oil paintings of every description. He devotes his personal attention to the sales department and is thoroughly at home in discussing the merits or demerits of works of art. In the framing department the Pioneer Art Gallery is especially to be complimented. The stock of frames carried embraces all the latest styles, as well as the latest novelties in mouldings and framings. Mr. Hardiman has an extensive acquaintance among artists and amateurs, as well as with lovers of art and buyers of pictures. Patrons may be assured in buying a picture from the Pioneer Art Galllery it will be represented to be just what it is, no more, no less. He also carries a fine assortment of Geo. Rowney & Co.'s paints, colours, and artists' materials of all kinds. His trade in materials, while largely local, extends also to the Interior towns of the Province. As the representative for British Columbia of the "Art Union of London," Mr. Hardiman is enabled to keep fully abreast of the times in all that pertains to new pictures put upon the market, and all that is going on in the world of art. All artists and amateurs should be members of this organization. Each subscriber has a chance of drawing a valuable work of art, and each is sure of obtaining a prize. The measure of success Mr. Hardiman has won has been amply merited by a personal appreciation of the beautiful, strict attention to business and by fair and honorable dealing with all patrons, whether in person or by correspondence. |