John Poad Drake

John Poad Drake (1794–1883) was an inventor and artist from Stoke Damerel, Devonshire. He worked at the Plymouth Dockyard. He later painted in Halifax, Nova Scotia (1815), Montreal and New York. He later returned to England and patented a new system for drilling screws at the shipyard. He is a descendant of Sir Francis Drake. Drake was a student of the Royal Academy in London. Drake's painting of the Last Supper hangs in the new Christ Church Cathedral, on St. Catherine Street, Montreal (1825).

Gallery

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  Sampson Salter Blowers, Nova Scotia Court House

Links

• Shippling at Low Tide, Halifax, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
• Montreal from St. Helen's Island, Royal Ontario Museum
• Montreal
• Quebec

References

Text

• Drake, John Poad. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 15.
• Mechanic's Magazine, lxvii.242, 251–4, 393, 422, 493–5, 538, lxviii. 107, 181, 228, 542, 609, lxix. 61;
• Artisan, May 1852, March 1854;
• Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, xv. 113
• Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: Comprising a supplementary catalogue of authors .... p. 1160
• “John Poad Drake (1794-1883): the First Artist to Portray the Hospital”, Montreal General Hospital News 1981, 19(l): 8-9.