The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock

Guy St-Denis

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English

University of Calgary Press
30 October 2018

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Portraits in art; History of the Americas

Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. In the more than two centuries since then, Brock's likeness has been lost in a confusing array of portraits-most of which are misidentified or conceptual.

The 1824 monument constructed to honour Brock's sacrifice was destroyed in 1840 by Benjamin Lett, a disgruntled disciple of William Lyon Mackenzie and critic of the Upper Canadian elite. The replacement and subsequent commemorations emphasized a patriotic desire to visualize the hero's appearance. But despite uncovering an authentic portrait painted only a few years before Brock's death, a series of false faces were promoted to serve competing claims and agendas. St-Denis situates Brock's portraits within an emerging English Canadian imperial nationalism that sought a heroic past which reflected their own aspirations and ambitions. A work of detailed scholarship and a fascinating detective story, The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock details the sometimes petty world of self-proclaimed guardians of the past, the complex process of identification and misidentification that often occurs even at esteemed Canadian institutions, and St-Denis' own meticulous work as he separates fact from fiction to finally reveal Brock's true face.

By: Guy St-Denis
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 199mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9781773850207
ISBN 10: 1773850202
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 30 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Guy St-Denis is an historian living in London, Ontario. He has received the Fred Landon Prize in Canadian History, the Huron College Prize in Amerindian History, and is the author of Tecumseh's Bones, for which he received the Ontario Historical Society Talman Award.

Reviews for The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock

St-Denis provides more than 60 pages of detailed endnotes along with a lengthy bibliography and many acknowledgements of help received. He is an assiduous investigator, meticulous and perceptive in his scrutiny of sources and evidence. The plates are the great strength and highlight of the book. There are 35, most in colour, along with 66 black and white figures W. Turner, Profile of a hero: explaining the many portraits of Brock, Fife and Drum Vol 22 No4 Dec 2018 [Guy St-Denis] is an assiduous investigator, meticulous and perceptive in his scrutiny of sources and evidence - Wesley Turner, Fife and Drum