Mary Love (artist)

Mary Heaviside Love (June 25, 1806 – November 2, 1874), also known as Lady Mary Love and Mary Love, was a Canadian artist active from 1825 to 1842.[3] Her lithograph A view on the St. Croix River, New Brunswick, circa 1830, was possibly the first lithograph made in Canada.[4][5] She was one of the first Canadian artists to go abroad for her studies.[6]

Mary Love
Born
Mary Heaviside

(1806-06-25)June 25, 1806
DiedNovember 2, 1874(1874-11-02) (aged 68)[1][2]
Cranley Place, London
NationalityCanadian
Other namesLady Mary Love
OccupationArtist and lithographer
Years active1825-1841

Biography

Love was born Mary Heaviside on June 25, 1806 to parents Thomas and Elizabeth Heaviside. She was the youngest of the Heaviside children. There is some scholarly debate about whether she was born in Saint John, New Brunswick or Halifax, Nova Scotia.[7][8] In 1819, Love's sister, Anna Maria Heaviside, married clergyman Robert Willis.[9] Another of Love's sisters, Jane, married Alexander Wedderburn in 1923.[10][8]

Love studied art in England in the 1820s and was one of the first Canadian artists to pursue artistic studies abroad.[11] On July 16, 1825, Mary married Lieutenant-Colonel James Frederick Love in New Brunswick. After her marriage, Mary developed her skills in drawing and watercolour.[12] Henry James Morgan remarked that he would like to have Love's watercolours of the Eastern Townships published. The 1960 New Brunswick Museum Art Bulletin described Love's lithographs A view near St. Andrews, New Brunswick (Chamcook) and A view on the St. Croix River, New Brunswick as likely being the first drawn-on-stone lithographs in Canada.[8]

In 1856, her husband was knighted. As a result of his title, Love officially became Lady Mary Love. The Loves travelled to London where James Love died in 1866. The two had no children. Little is known of Mary Love's life after the death of her husband.[8] Love died at Cranley Place, London, England in 1874.[1][12]

Works
  • A view near St. Andrews, New Brunswick (Chamcook) — drawn on stone, lithographed by John B. Pendleton in 1830
  • A view on the St. Croix River, New Brunswick — drawn on stone, lithographed by John B. Pendleton in 1830
  • Illustrations in The British Dominions in North America (2 vols., London, 1832) by Joseph Bouchette[8]
    • New Government House, Fredericton, N.B. — signed "By a Lady" but generally considered to be Love's work
    • Barracks and Market Square, Fredericton, N.B. — signed "By a Lady" but generally considered to be Love's work

Works of uncertain attribution:

  • Illustrations for A Peep at the Esquimaux (1825 book of poems)[12]
  • On the Kennebeckasis near St. John in Bouchette's The British Dominions in North America[8]

References
  1. "Provincial Archives of New Brunswick".
  2. "Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Artist Database : Artists : LOVE, Lady Mary Heaviside".
  3. "Artist/Maker name "Love, Mary Heaviside, Lady"". Government of Canada: Artists in Canda. May 13, 1985. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  4. Loren Ruth Lerner; Mary F. Williamson (1991). Art Et Architecture Au Canada. University of Toronto Press. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-0-8020-5856-0.
  5. "LOVE, Lady Mary Heaviside". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. 2012. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  6. Robert James Belton (2001). Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture. University of Calgary Press. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-1-55238-011-6.
  7. Harper, J. Russell (1970). Early Painters and Engravers in Canada. University of Toronto Press. pp. 201.
  8. Creighton, Phyllis (2003). "HEAVISIDE, MARY (Lady Love)". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  9. Thomas, C. E. (1976). "Biography – WILLIS, ROBERT". Dictionary of Canadian Biography – Volume 9. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  10. Spray, W. A. (1988). "Biography – WEDDERBURN, ALEXANDER". Dictionary of Canadian Biography – Vol 7. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  11. Belton, Robert James (2001). Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture. 9. University of Calgary press. p. 89. ISBN 9781552380116. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  12. "LOVE, Lady Mary Heaviside". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative: Artist Database. 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
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