Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Painting |
Collection |
Lambton Heritage Museum Collection |
Accession number |
LHM W.1976 |
Catalog Number |
LHM W.1976.1320 |
Description |
Framed painting. The painting depicts a portrait of a man and his horse. The painting is mounted inside a wooden frame with a golden finish. |
Provenance |
George Campbell was a buyer of cattle for the Armour Meat Packing Company of Chicago. He purchased hundreds of cattle in Lambton County and shipped them to Chicago. He also purchased and rented several hundred acres of land in Bosanquet Township. These farms were his hobby and were operated more or less as model farms with a choice herd of Scotch Shorthorn cattle and purebred hogs. His wife, their two daughters, son-in-law Ralph Gray, and George Campbell's father, James H. "Yankee" Campbell, moved to the Thedford and Arkona district. Ralph and Yankee Campbell were the managers of these farms. In 1924, Campbell was sent to Argentina by the Armour Company to purchase cattle at a salary of $21,000 a year, a very high salary at that time. He remained in Argentina for five years, during which time he and his wife were divorced and he remarried a Spanish girl in Argentina. Campbell, his Spanish wife, and their two children settled on his model farm near Thedford around 1929. During this time, the stock market crashed and was the beginning of the Depression. Many men went bankrupt during the Depression, including Campbell. He died on July 23, 1933 and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Sarnia. |
Dimensions |
W-60.1 L-70.2 cm |
Search Terms |
Painting Art Portrait Bosanquet Bosanquet Township Model Farm Cattle |
People |
Walden, Fred Stanley Campbell, George Campbell, James H. |