Woodside Hoodies
Description: Woodside in Kitchener, Ontario is a National Historic Site and the former home of Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. The house preserves 19th-century architecture and offers insight into Canada’s early political history. This drawing makes a meaningful keepsake or gift for those who appreciate Canadian heritage and historic residences.
Description: Woodside in Kitchener, Ontario is a National Historic Site and the former home of Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. The house preserves 19th-century architecture and offers insight into Canada’s early political history. This drawing makes a meaningful keepsake or gift for those who appreciate Canadian heritage and historic residences.
Description: John A. Woodside (1781–1852) probably received his training from Philadelphia sign painter Matthew Pratt or one of Pratt’s business partners. In 1805, Woodside opened his own studio in Philadelphia, advertising his services as an ornamental or sign painter. He aspired to less mundane genres, however, and tried his hand at emblematic and patriotic works, animal scenes, miniatures, and copies after English engravings. This work is among Woodside’s few known still lifes and represent his best efforts as a painter. His arrangement of peaches and grapes in a spare setting bears the stylistic imprint of the Peale family, who established a still-life tradition in Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century.
