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     The original 1902 watercolor painting shown here measures 12X19 inches and the frame 30X24 inches. 

     It was painted and signed by Canadian artist Thomas Harrison Wilkinson (1847-1929).  Wilkinson was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1863.  He initially lived in London, Ontario, before moving to Toronto in 1882, and finally settling in Hamilton c.1909.

     Wilkinson apparently had a great interest in American history; he took a tour of American cities that figured large in the American experiment and painted important historical structures along the way.  Among his works are the “Cannon Ball House”, the “Arnold Mansion” home of Benedict Arnold, the “Johnson House” the “Randolph House” the “Wagner House”, which during the Revolutionary War the house served as a hospital, and it was later "a mecca for visitors to Philadelphia, because the bloodstains in its floors remained a spectacle”,  the “Dunkard’s  Church”, “The Jolly Post Boy Tavern”, the last change for horses on the post road between New York and Philadelphia, the “Smith Mansion”, owned in the 18^th century by Thomas Lee, “Old Fort Miffin” and the “Morris House”, the summer home of George Washington while President.  All of which are in and around Philadelphia.

     Wilkinson thought the White House of the Confederacy of sufficient import to sojourn to Richmond in March of 1902 to see, and paint the house.  As you can see, not much had changed since the days since Davis, Lee, Jackson, Stuart and a host of other luminaries mounted its steps.  A reminder of the time when the house was the headquarters of a nation struggling for its independence sits in the front yard, just to the left of the fence the viewer can the see the drive shaft of the CSS Virginia.

     The painting is completely original; it has had no restoration whatsoever.  It has been professionally framed behind museum grade glass using archival matting.  It is ready to hang and enjoy.