{{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Millicent Mary Chaplin | honorific_suffix = | image = <!-- just the pagename, without the File:/Image: prefix or brackets --> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Millicent Mary Reeve | birth_date = 1790 <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living artists, {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} for dead. For living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB. Treat such cases as if only the year is known, so use {{birth year and age|YYYY}} or a similar option. --> | birth_place = Leadenham | death_date = 1858 <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = watercolour | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | awards = <!-- {{awd|award|year|title|role|name}} (optional) --> | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = <!-- {{URL|Example.com}} --> | module = }} '''Millicent Mary Chaplin''' (1790 – 1858) was an English-born amateur artist mainly known for her watercolours depicting 19th century Canada.
==Life== She was born '''Millicent Mary Reeve''' in Leadenham, Lincolnshire, and came to Lower Canada with her husband Thomas Chaplin of the Coldstream Guards in 1838. Her husband was a Lieutenant-Colonal stationed in Quebec City due to the fallout of the 1837–1838 Lower Canada Rebellion.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Grandbois |first=Michèle |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/quebec-city-art-artists/key-artists/millicent-mary-chaplin/ |title=Quebec City Art & Artists: An Illustrated History |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2025 |location=Toronto}}</ref> Over the next four years she spent in Canada, Chaplin painted landscapes of Ottawa, Quebec City, and the Canadian Maritimes, as well as depictions of the local people. She also copied works by artists such as James Hope-Wallace, Henry William Barnard, and Philip John Bainbrigge.<ref name=cwahi/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lincstothepast.com/Journal-of-Millicent-Mary-Chaplin--nee-Reeve---wife-of-Colonel-Chaplin--13-St--Ursule-St---Quebec-/830133.record?pt=S |title=Journal of Millicent Mary Chaplin (nee Reeve), wife of Colonel Chaplin "13 St. Ursule St., Quebec" |work=Lincs to the Past |publisher=Historic Environment Record, Archives, Libraries, Museums and Tennyson Research Centre, Lincolnshire}}</ref> She created an album recounting her journaling and travels, which help approximately 130 watercolour paintings and drawings.<ref name=":0" /> About 90 of these works capture Quebec City, which she depicted in a meticulous, delicate style.<ref name=":0" /> Her creations help to create the visual legacy of nineteenth century Quebec.<ref name=":0" />
Chaplin died in Normanby Park, Lincolnshire, in 1858.<ref name=cwahi/>
Her work is held in the collections of the National Archives of Canada and the Royal Ontario Museum.<ref name=cwahi>{{cite web |url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=52 |title=Chaplin, Mary Millicent |work=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative}}</ref> A collection of her watercolours and journals from her visit to Canada was published as ''Drawing on the Land: The New World Watercolours and Diaries (1838-1942) of Millicent Mary Chaplin'' (edited by Jim Burant) in 2004. ({{ISBN|1894131614}}).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.penumbrapress.com/book.php?id=60 |title=Drawing on the Land: The New World Watercolours and Diaries (1838-1942) of Millicent Mary Chaplin |publisher=Penumbra Press}}</ref>
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