Portrait of Sir Isaac Brock Returns to Canada for Celebration

From the April 18th Vancouver Sun by Randy Boswell.

The only-known adult portrait done from life completed in Quebec just before the war began of the "mythic figure in Canada's history" which has been in Guernsey, England for many years was to be returned to Canada on loan within the week.

The 23-by-15-centimeter painting was created by Dutch artist Gerrir Schippes who could do a portrait in just 45 minutes.

Sir Isaac Brock was killed by an American sharpshooter at the Battle of Queensboro Heights near Niagara Falls

The small pastel portrait was believed to have been shipped back to Brock's family in his native Guernsey (an English Channel Island) either just prior to the war or shortly after his death.  It has remained there ever since.  His descendants sold it to the Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery in 2009, despite a competing bid from the Niagara-area River Brink Art Museum which raised $100,000.

But, the Guernsey Museum has offered to loan it to the River Brink Museum because of the bicentennial.

Mighty Nice of Them to Do That.  --Brock-Perry