Henrietta Anne Constantine (1857 – 1934) was a Canadian photographer.

Life

The daughter of Edward A. Armstrong, she was born Henrietta Anne Armstrong in

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and moved with her family to

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in 1872. She married Lieutenant Charles Constantine of the

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there the following year; the couple had three sons. Both her husband and her father were members of the expedition led by Garnet Joseph Wolseley. During the 1890s and the early 1910s, she travelled with her husband in western Canada, took photographs of the landscape and collected

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art. Following her husband's death in 1912, Constantine moved to

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to live with her son Charles Francis. She died in Kingston in 1934. Her photographs are held in private collections and in the collection of the

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. Her collection was purchased by Agnes Etherington to form the basis of the

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. A 2011 exhibition based on her art collection "The Constantine Collection of Northern Indigenous Art" travelled to various Ontario museums and galleries.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Constantine, Henrietta 1857 births 1934 deaths Artists from Ottawa Canadian women photographers Canadian art collectors Canadian women art collectors