Fred Nicholas Loveroff was born in Tiflis, Russia, between 1890 and 1895. He emigrated with his parents to Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan, in 1900. From 1903 to 1906, he attended a Quaker School in Pennsylvania. As a young man, he established his own homestead near Borden and began to paint in his spare time. In 1913, due to the generosity of a benefactor, D.A. Dunlap, he moved to Toronto to study art. At the Central Ontario School of Art, he studied under G.A. Reid, J.W. Beatty and J.E. H. MacDonald. He was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy. In 1931, he moved to California where he farmed and worked for a seed company. It appears that he never painted again. He died at Redwood City, California, in 1959.
