Henry Sandham

Henry Sandham (1842 - 1910) is a painter and a Canadian illustrator.

Born with Montreal, it was initiated with art as of its childhood whereas his/her father had a company in house painting in Griffintown. Entered in conflict with his father about his future, it decided to enter to the service of William Notman at the age of quatroze years, becoming later the assistant of John Arthur Fraser at eighteen years.

Formed naturally in contact with Fraser, it evolved/moved with Charles Jones Way, Adolphe Vogt and Otto Reinhold Jacobi. It succeeds Fraser in 1868 when this one left for Toronto as associated with Notman. After having improved the initial technique of the studio, it assembled several composite photographs and gained a medal with the World Fair of 1878. Of 1877 with 1882, he is the senior partner of Notman in the firm Notman and Sandham.

Member of the Association of the fine arts of Montreal and the Company of the Canadian artists, it took an active part in the artistic medium montéalais and regularly presented his illustrations and paintings to the Ontario Society off Artists. Draftsman for William George Beers, his reputation in the field of the illustration is established in 1880 while collaborating in an article of George Monroe Grant.

Benefitting from a payment allowing the establishment the étaranger, he works then with London and Boston. In 1882, the Century Monthly Magazine sends it in California in a project of illustration with the auteure Helen Maria Jackson. At the time, it often exposed to the Boston Art Club and to the American Water Color Society . In 1893,1895 and 1897, it exposes during the World Fairs of Chicago,

In 1901, it goes to London, having definitively left its residence of Boston. Until 1908, it continues there its work of illustrator to the Royal Academy of Arts before dying the May 13rd 1865. It is buried with the London cemetery of Kensal Green.

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