Mary Riter Hamilton

Mary Riter was born in Teeswater, Ontario, and raised in Clearwater, Manitoba. In 1889 she married Charles W. Hamilton and moved to Port Arthur, Ontario, where Charles owned one of the town’s general stores. In 1893, following her husband's death, she returned to Manitoba, where she opened a china painting school. In 1901, following a brief period of study in Toronto, she travelled to study in Europe. She spent a year in Berlin studying under Italian landscape artist Franz Skarbina, …