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Born in 1890 in Orillii in the province of Ontario. He died in 1945 in Toronto, Ontario. Franklin Carmichael, whose parents were Scots, grew up in Orillii. In 1911 he entered the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, where he attended classes artistic skill, which led William Kryukshank and George Reid. He also studied at the Technical College of Toronto, where his art teacher was Gustav Hahn. In the same year, Franklin Carmichael went to work in an advertising agency''''Grip Limited in Toronto, where he studied the profession of the artist - designer. There he met Tom Thomson, Arthur Lizmerom, J. E. G. MacDonald and Frederick Varley. In 1913 - 1914's he continued his studies in Antwerp and, after returning to Canada, worked as a designer, while continuing to write watercolor and oil landscapes of northern Ontario. Carmichael was one of the founders of the Group of Seven''and''from 1932 to 1934. served as president of the Society of Artists. From 1932 to 1945. He taught at the Ontario College of Art. However, despite the teaching, he continued to paint landscapes using watercolor and oil. He especially liked the scenery in the valley of the river from Ottawa and on the shore of Lake Superior, where he visited several times with Alfred J. Casson and Loureno Harris.