George Alexander Drummond
Title: Sir, KCMG CVO
Nationality: Scottish/Canadian
Date of birth: 11 October 1829
Place of birth: Edinburgh
Date of death: 2 February 1910
Place of death: Huntlywood (Beaconsfield)
Category: collector
Nationality: Scottish/Canadian
Date of birth: 11 October 1829
Place of birth: Edinburgh
Date of death: 2 February 1910
Place of death: Huntlywood (Beaconsfield)
Category: collector
Identity:
Industrialist, financier, and senator, after being educated in Scotland he moved to Montreal, Canada, to work with the sugar refinery of John Redpath and Son, of which he became a director. He married, first, John Redpath's daughter, and second, Grace Parker.
Life:
He was president of the Art Association of Montreal from 1896 to 1899. He and his wife acquired a large and imprtant collection that icluded wrks by Turner, Velasquez and Rubens. He bought Note in Red: The Siesta y254 in 1891.
Bibliography:
Michèle Brassard and Jean Hamelin, 'Drummond, Sir George Alexander,'Dictionary of Canadian Biography website.
