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. His son Henry Holman Drake created a spurious family tree at the 300th anniversary of the Spanish Armada, falsifying kinship to childless circumnavigator Sir Francis Drake (an Antwerper, who after 1564 served the English crown under letters of marque). 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 Supreme Court, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Links

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

References

Text

• Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Drake, John Poad" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 15. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• 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.