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Last Name Chaplin

Given Name Millicent Mary °

alt. Names M. M. C. ; born Reeve / signed MMC ;

Marriage Thomas Chaplin, lieutenant-colonel in the Coldstream Guards; he was posted to Quebec (then Lower Canada) from 1838-42.

Children

Year born 1790 in Leadenham, Lincolnshire, England

Year died 1858

Place of death Normanby Park, Lincolnshire, England

Father's occupation Reeve

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Education

Country of Activity Canada

Worked for sketchbook, comprising over 130 drawings, now in the collection of the National Archives of Canada.

Patronage Sigmund Samuel Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Collaborators Chaplin also copied works by professional watercolourists she may have been acquainted with, including James Hope-Wallace, Henry William Barnard, and Philip John Bainbrigge ;

Techniques botanical, ethnological, and topographic drawing, watercolour, and painting

Sample(s) www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn:1894131614 ; http://tolkien2008.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/peinture-quebec-entre-1838-1842-par-mary-millicent-chaplin/

Archival sources http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=52

Published sources Jim Burant: Drawing on the Land: New World Travel Diaries & Watercolours of M.M.C., 1838-1842, Ontario 1982/2004; Robert 2008: 58-61

other born & died in England, M. M. C. came to Canada when her husband was posted to Quebec (then Lower Canada) 1838-42; cf. http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=180467

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