Untitled, three native men resting after a deer hunt, oil on canvas, signed "C. Krieghoff." lower left. 18" H, 25" W. Cornelius David Krieghoff was a Dutch born, Canadian- American (died in Chicago). Around 1846, with his wife, Émilie Gauthier, he moved to Montreal and participated in the founding of the Montreal Society of Artists in 1847. While in Montreal, he befriended the Mohawks living on the Kahnawake Indian Reservation and made many sketches of them from which he later produced oil paintings. He took numerous trips around Quebec, to see people and landscapes and to familiarize himself with ways of living. According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, two schools asked Krieghoff to give a few hours’ teaching: the Quebec School for Young Ladies and Miss Plimsoll’s establishment. His teaching seems to have been confined to having his pupils copy his own paintings.