19th-century painter gets her due thanks to UPEI history grad
The CBC recently featured a story about Paige Matthie, the registrar at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and a 2009 Honours History graduate of UPEI. Matthie, through some creative sleuthing, was able to reassign credit for six works by 19th-century painter Caroline Louisa Daly which had been attributed for more than a century to two other artists.
“We were able to piece the story together with enough historical proof to say 'no these are actually all Caroline Louisa Daly,’” Matthie said to the CBC.
Read the whole story here.
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