John Poad Drake

John Poad Drake (1794–1883) was an inventor and artist from Stoke Damerel, in present-day Devon. 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.