Henry Sandham (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Henry "Hy" Sandham (24 May 1842 - 21 June 1910) was a Canadian painter and illustrator. He was the brother of author and numismatist Alfred Sandham. In early 1880, Sandham and his wife Agnes Fraser, the sister of his mentor, whom he had married in 1865, toured England and France. In December, they were visiting Boston, Massachusetts, intending only stay for a short while to complete some portrait commissions, but instead they ended up staying there for nearly twenty years. It was at this time when he decided to focus more on art and less on business. In 1882, The Century Magazine (the successor to Scribner's) sent him on assignment with Helen Hunt Jackson to Southern California to investigate the lives of Mission Indians. Sandham moved to London in 1901, and continued his career there, with works shown at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1905 to 1908. His wife died in 1906, and he died in 1910. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.