A painter, draughtsman, illustrator, muralist, William Brymner is one of the many Canadian artists who were practising landscape painting around the turn of the 20th century. Although he also produced genre scenes, portraits and a few nudes, his colleague and friend Edmond Dyonnet described him in his memoirs as a “landscape painter”. He was also one of the most influential art teachers in Canada. His openness to new movements and propensity to experiment informed his painting and his pedagogy.