George Theodore Berthon
George Theodore Berthon (Vienna, Austria, May 3rd 1806 - Toronto, Canada, January 18th 1892) was a French portraitist of the 19th century. Wire of Rene Theodore Berthon, painter at the court of Napoleon, George Theodore Berthon were a traditional painter.
Formed by his father, it is subject to the influence of Jacques-Louis David. Of 1827 with 1840, it works in England, where it teaches with the one of the girls to sir Robert Peel. It settles with Toronto, towards 1841, and carries out a brilliant career by painting the official portraits of the leading class of and the justice business world of the High-Canada. These portraits are exposed to the Osgoode Hall and the Trinity College, with Toronto, just as with the Sénat, Ottawa. One considers his portrait of the judge as a chief to sir John Berverley Robinson like his masterpiece.
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