Frank Porter Wood was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is best remembered for his many gifts and bequests of artworks to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
Frank Porter Wood in 1924
Wood's home on Bayview Avenue, which now houses the Crescent School
Portrait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa by Frans Hals, 1626, donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1955 by Wood
The Harvest Wagon by Thomas Gainsborough, donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1955 by Wood
The Harvest Wagon is the name of two oil paintings by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough. The first version was completed around 1767 and is today owned by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, in Bi
Frank Porter Wood
…Adams Delano) and now houses the Crescent School. He died on 20 March 1955 in Toronto, and his major bequests to the Art Gallery of Ontario included The Harvest Wagon by Thomas Gainsborough, Daedalus Warning His Son Icarus by Anthony van Dyck, A Portrait of Dr. Joseph Joachim by John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Isaak…
Gainsborough Harvest Wagon 1784
Thomas Gainsborough by Thomas Gainsborough