Captain James Edward Alexander, 42nd Highlanders (1803-1885)

‘Deer shooting at a Portage – Canada 1831’; and ‘A Canadian Settler House – 1831’

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Captain James Edward Alexander, 42nd Highlanders (1803-1885)
‘Deer shooting at a Portage – Canada 1831’; and ‘A Canadian Settler House – 1831’
the first titled and dated ‘Deer shooting at a Portage – Canada 31’, both signed with initials, inscribed as titled and dated on the mounts
pencil, sepia and blue wash on paper
11 ½ x 14 ¼in. (29.2 x 36.1cm.)
(2)

Exhibited

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, A Pageant of Canada, Pages d’histoire du Canada, 1967, p.267, nos 230-231 (illustrated).

Engraved

By W. Heath in J.E.A. Alexander, Transatlantic Sketches, London, 1833, II, opposite pp. 179 (‘Making a Portage’) and 209 (‘A Canadian Residence’).

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Lot Essay

Born in Stirling, Alexander was educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities, and at Sandhurst, and soldiered in India, Burma, Persia and the Balkans in the 1820s. He was promoted to Captain in 1830, went on half pay and toured the Americas, publishing his Transatlantic Sketches illustrated with his drawings in 1833. After travels to Portugal, South America and service in South Africa in the 6th Frontier War he was knighted in 1841, and in the same year returned to Canada on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces. His second tour of Canada written up in his L’Acadie; or seven years’ exploration in British North America, in 1849.

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