CHEOPS MOUNTAIN PAINTED BY WILLIAM BRYMMER

WILLIAM BRYMMER (1855-1925) 

Cheops Mountain (2,581m - 8,468ft) 

Canada (Bristish Columbia) 

In Mount Cheops, oil on canvas, 1886,  The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

The mountain
Cheops Mountain (2,581m - 8,468ft)  also known as Mount Kheops is a  summit located in Glacier National Park in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Cheops Mountain is situated in the Hermit Range, and the summit provides a good view of the Hermit and Sir Donald Ranges. Its nearest higher peak is Ursus Major Mountain, 4.0 km (2.5 mi) to the northwest.
The mountain's current name was officially adopted in 1951 when approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.  Prior to that it was known as Mount Cheops. The peak was named by Otto Julius Klotz for its resemblance to the Pyramid of Cheops.
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Cheops Mountain has a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.
The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1893 by Samuel E. S. Allen and Walter D. Wilcox.
The 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche was the deadliest avalanche in Canadian history, resulting in the deaths of 62 Canadian Pacific Railway workers.  In the late afternoon of March 4, 1910, an avalanche swept down the slopes of Cheops, burying the railroad tracks in snow. The men were working to clear the tracks when shortly before midnight the deadly slide hit, coming from the opposite side of the valley down Avalanche Mountain.

The painter
William Brymner was a Canadian art teacher and a figure and landscape painter. Born in Greenock (Scotland), he moved with his family to Melbourne (Canada East) in 1857. In 1864, his family moved to Montreal. They later lived in the area of Ottawa, where William attended the Ottawa Grammar School. Following architectural studies in enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris (France) in 1878 where his instructors were William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.  Both of his teachers, in Paris, were famous exponents of 'Grand manner' naturalism. During this period at the Salon he became interested in the work of Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier who was already popular in his country. Brymner specialized in domestic figure scenes and avoided large historical subjects.

In 1886, he settled in Montreal after staying in Paris "on and off for almost seven years".
Many members of the Beaver Hall Group studied under Brymner, who encouraged them to explore new modernistic approaches to painting.

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