William Edwin Atkinson

William Edwin Atkinson (1862-1926)

William Edwin Atkinson was an English-born Canadian painter and a founding member of the Canadian Art Club. After studying in Toronto and later in Paris at the Academie Julian, Atkinson returned to Canada and settled in Toronto, building a reputation for himself as a landscape painter. Atkinson’s work is held within the National Gallery of Canada, the Government of Ontario Art Collection, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.