Shooting the Rapids 1879 by Frances Anne Hopkins

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Giclee Prints on canvas or paper of Shooting the Rapids 1879 by Frances Anne Hopkins

Frances Anne Hopkins (2 February 1838 – 5 March 1919) was an English painter. She was the daughter of Frederick William Beechey. In 1858, she married a Hudson’s Bay Company official, Edward Hopkins, whose work took him to North America. She accompanied him and travelled extensively by canoe along some of the most important fur trading routes. While travelling, she sketched extensively and thereby recorded an interesting aspect of Canadian history.

Her best-known works are several large paintings made from her sketches. They show voyageurs and their canoes with her husband and herself in with the paddlers.Hopkins returned to England in 1870 where she lived until her death.