Background
ATKINSON, W. E. was born in 1862 in Toronto. Son of William Thomas Atkinson, Manchester, England.
ATKINSON, W. E. was born in 1862 in Toronto. Son of William Thomas Atkinson, Manchester, England.
Studied at Ontario School of Artist Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, under Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia. Atelier Julien, Paris.
Exhibited at the Paris “ Salon,” 1890-1891. Painting in Holland and Belgium during the year 1897. Devonshire, 1898- 1901.
Returned to Canada, 1902.
Member of the new Society of Canadian Artists. A.It.C.A.; landscape painter.