Brief Biography-Paul Peel of London, Ontario, was born in 1860. Peel studied alongside Thomas Eakins at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. After this, he trained at The Royal Academy London and got tuition from Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Peel exhibited his works regularly in Canada and France, receiving a medal in 1890 for his painting After the Bath. His most frequent paintings were of infants; however, he also painted landscapes. He died in Paris, where he had settled, at the early age of thirty-one, leaving his wife Isaure and two children in 1892.