True Face of Sir Isaac Brock
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A01=Guy St-Denis
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Agnes FitzGibbon
Art
Art Authenticity
Art History
Art Mystery
Authentication
Author_Guy St-Denis
Battle of Queenston Heights
Brock
Brock's Monument
Brock's Portrait
Brock’s Monument
Brock’s Portrait
Canadian Art History
Canadian War Museum
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Category=NHK
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Category=NL-HB
COP=Canada
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General Brock
Gerrit Schipper
HMM=228
IMPN=University of Calgary Press
Isaac Brock
ISBN13=9781773850207
Language_English
Ludwig Kosche
Misidentification
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20181030
POP=Calgary
Portrait
Portraiture
Price=€20 to €50
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PUB=University of Calgary Press
Real Isaac Brock
Sara Mickle
SMM=23
Subject=Art Treatments & Subjects
Subject=History
Subject=History Of Art/art & Design Styles
True Isaac Brock
Upper Canada
War of 1812
WG=590
WMM=152
Product details
- ISBN 9781773850207
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 199 x 234 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2018
- Publisher: University of Calgary Press
- Publication City/Country: Calgary, CA
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. In the more than two centuries since then, Brock's likeness has been lost in a confusing array of portraits-most of which are misidentified or conceptual.
The 1824 monument constructed to honour Brock's sacrifice was destroyed in 1840 by Benjamin Lett, a disgruntled disciple of William Lyon Mackenzie and critic of the Upper Canadian elite. The replacement and subsequent commemorations emphasized a patriotic desire to visualize the hero's appearance. But despite uncovering an authentic portrait painted only a few years before Brock's death, a series of false faces were promoted to serve competing claims and agendas. St-Denis situates Brock's portraits within an emerging English Canadian imperial nationalism that sought a heroic past which reflected their own aspirations and ambitions. A work of detailed scholarship and a fascinating detective story, The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock details the sometimes petty world of self-proclaimed guardians of the past, the complex process of identification and misidentification that often occurs even at esteemed Canadian institutions, and St-Denis' own meticulous work as he separates fact from fiction to finally reveal Brock's true face.
The 1824 monument constructed to honour Brock's sacrifice was destroyed in 1840 by Benjamin Lett, a disgruntled disciple of William Lyon Mackenzie and critic of the Upper Canadian elite. The replacement and subsequent commemorations emphasized a patriotic desire to visualize the hero's appearance. But despite uncovering an authentic portrait painted only a few years before Brock's death, a series of false faces were promoted to serve competing claims and agendas. St-Denis situates Brock's portraits within an emerging English Canadian imperial nationalism that sought a heroic past which reflected their own aspirations and ambitions. A work of detailed scholarship and a fascinating detective story, The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock details the sometimes petty world of self-proclaimed guardians of the past, the complex process of identification and misidentification that often occurs even at esteemed Canadian institutions, and St-Denis' own meticulous work as he separates fact from fiction to finally reveal Brock's true face.
Guy St-Denis is an historian living in London, Ontario. He has received the Fred Landon Prize in Canadian History, the Huron College Prize in Amerindian History, and is the author of Tecumseh's Bones, for which he received the Ontario Historical Society Talman Award.
