Lucius Richard O'Brien was born in Shanty Bay, Ontario on 15 August 1832 and practiced as a civil engineer until he became a professional painter. He is best known for landscape paintings from across Canada in oil and watercolour. Many of his paintings are held by the National Gallery of Canada.
He was the first and founding president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1880 and editor of Picturesque Canada (1882).
He died on 13 December 1899 in Toronto, Ontario at the age of 67.
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