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Died on 03 February 1900: William
Stanley Haseltine, US painter born on 11 June 1835. [The
11 Jan 1835 date sometimes found for his birth seems to be a typo]. — He was the son of successful Philadelphia merchant John Haseltine [28 Feb 1793 – 11 Dec 1871] and of his wife (married on 11 March 1830) painter Elizabeth Stanley Shinn Haseltine [22 Apr 1811 – 29 Jun 1882], who were the parents of ten other children including the sculptor James Henry Haseltine [02 Nov 1833 – 1907] and the art dealer Charles Field Haseltine [29 Jul 1840 – 1915]. In 1850 William Stanley Haseltine enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; after two years he transferred to Harvard College, Cambridge MA, graduating in 1854. He first formally studied painting in that year on his return to Philadelphia, working under Paul Weber [1823–1916]. Haseltine went abroad to Düsseldorf in 1855, where he became friends with his compatriots Albert Bierstadt, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze and Worthington Whittredge. He painted throughout Europe for the next three years, returning from Italy to the US in late 1858. He was established in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York by the winter of 1859 and played an active role in the city’s art world, exhibiting at the Century and Salmagundi clubs and at the National Academy of Design, of which he was an associate by 1860 and an academician in 1861. During the years of the Civil War (from which he was exempt due to a chronic eye ailment), Haseltine journeyed repeatedly to the rocky Atlantic coastline of New England to sketch scenes of sea and shore that form the basis of his strongest work, for example Indian Rock, Narragansett, Rhode Island (1863). — William Haseltine became best known as a landscape and marine painter who had a special talent for conveying light and geological detail. He graduated from Harvard University in 1854 and also studied in Philadelphia with Paul Weber and then went to the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany where he became one of the key US artist figures. In 1856, he traveled and painted the Rhine River and went into the Italian Alps with Emanuel Leutze, Worthington Whittredge, and Albert Bierstadt. Haseltine fell in love with Italy, which became a lifelong "love affair." From 1858 to 1866, he lived and worked in New York City where he had studio space in the Tenth Street Studio Building near studios of Leutze, Whittredge, and Bierstadt. He also did much painting of US landscapes including the coast of Rhode Island and North Shore of Massachusetts. He especially focused on rock formations. After 1866, excepting four years, 1895 to 1899, he lived in Europe, and most of that time he had his studio in an Italian palazzo near Rome. There he specialized in Italian landscapes, many of them purchased by people from the US. — At Sotheby's 28 November 2001 auction, three Haseltine paintings were sold: A View from Mount Desert (1861, 76x102cm) for $748'250 _ New England Rocks (30x56cm) for $159'750 _ Capri Coast (38x58cm) for $98'500. — At Sotheby's 05 December 2002 auction, Haseltine's Rocks at Narragansett, Rhode Island (1863, 31x56cm) was sold for $229'500. — At Shannon's October 2000 auction, Haseltine's Woodland Interior (51x70cm; 438x600pix, 49kb) estimated at $4000 to $6000, was left unsold. It features mossy rocks. — At Shannon's April 2001 auction, a lot of 2 Mountain Landscapes (32x43cm and 22x29cm) by Haseltine, one of which this links to the image (434x600pix, 37kb), sold for $3450 — LINKS — Ruins of the Roman Theatre at Taormina, Sicily (1889, 83x144cm; 1/5 size, 141kb _ ZOOM to 2/5 size, 534kb _ ZOOM++ to 4/5 size, 2161kb) — Indian Rock, Narragansett, Rhode Island (1863, 57x98cm; 3/10 size, 147kb _ ZOOM to 3/5 size, 584kb_ ZOOM++ to 6/5 size, 3548kb) — Mont Saint Michel (1868, 35x58cm; half size, 126kb _ ZOOM to full size, 551kb) — Rocky Shore (1862, 31x61cm; 398x800pix) |
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Born on 05 February 1894: Norman
Percevel Rockwell, US illustrator and painter famous
for his Saturday Evening Post covers, who died on 08 November 1978.
— He studied at the Chase School of Fine and Applied Art, the National Academy of Art and the Art Students League, New York. He also enrolled at the Académie Colarossi in Paris in 1923 during one of his many trips to Europe where he came into contact with the European abstract avant-garde. Although he was a constant admirer of Pablo Picasso and made several attempts to absorb some modernist techniques, he remained a realist artist throughout his career, drawing on the narrative genre style of such 19th-century artists as William Sydney Mount and Winslow Homer.  — LINKS — Self-Portrait, Painting Soda Jerk (1953; 600x852pix, 164kb _ ZOOM to 1200x1704pix, 174kb) — Soda Jerk (22 Aug 1953; 363x277pix, 36kb) — Triple Self-Portrait (13 Feb 1960; 430x334pix, 14kb) _ Seen from the back, seated, Rockwell is nearly completing a drawing of his head, and is seen in the mirror into which he is looking. The picture is a small part of the cover mostly taken up by the lettering: Beginning in this issue AMERICA'S BEST LOVED ARTIST FINALLY TELLS HIS OWN STORY NORMAN ROCKWELL My Adventures As An Illustrator By Norman Rockwell — Before the shot (15 Mar 1958) [image >] — [No Ball Game] Rockwell's first Saturday Evening Post cover (20 May 1916; 750x535pix; 300kb) — Abraham Delivering the Gettysburg Address (1942, 125x92cm) — The Lineman (1949, 145x107cm) — The Connoisseur (1962; 1035x843pix, 368kb) seen from the back he is in contemplation before a large abstract painting, which you can see unobstructed in The Connoisseur Removed by “Roman Witzemacher von Schachtenstein” (2004; 1424x1496pix, 559kb) — Is He Coming? (1920) _ the question is asked by a little girl standing next to a fireplace on Christmas Eve. — Mine America's Coal (1943, 54x36cm; 1073x828pix, 297kb) _ Head and shoulders of a smiling coal miner. — Homecoming Marine — April Fool Girl with Shopkeeper (1948; 894x843pix, 331kb) — Hobo and Dog (1924) — Saying Grace (1951) — The Golden Rule (1961) |
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Died on 03 February 1679: Jan
Havickszoon Steen, Dutch painter born in 1626. — Son-in-law
of Jan
van Goyen. Studied under Adriaen
van Ostade. — Steen is especially noted for genre scenes. He was born in Leiden and educated at the University of Leiden. He is believed to have studied painting first in Utrecht with the German artist Nicolaus Knupfer, then in The Hague with the Dutch artist Jan van Goyen, whose daughter he married in 1649. Steen lived at The Hague until 1654, when he moved to Delft and, according to tradition, adopted his father's occupation of brewer. Subsequently he returned to Leiden, where he opened a tavern in 1672. Steen was a prolific painter, particularly of lively tavern scenes and of children, although he painted landscapes, portraits, and religious works as well. Among his best-known paintings are The Cat Family (1660), Young Woman at Her Toilette (1663), Wedding (1667), and The Surprise (1675). — Much of Jan Steen's career took place in his native Leiden, where he enrolled in the university as a literature student in 1646 and joined the newly founded Guild of Saint Luke in 1648. The following year he married Margaretha, the daughter of the painter Jan van Goyen. After Margaretha's death, Steen married Maria van Egmont in 1673. Steen worked in The Hague from 1649 to 1654; lived in Delft for two years; spent the years from 1656 to 1660 in Warmond; 1661 to 1669 in Haarlem; and finally in 1670 settled again in his native Leiden, where he remained until his death. Contemporary sources are silent about his artistic training. However, his eighteenth-century biographers Arnold Houbraken and Jacob Campo Wyerman place him in the studios of Nicolas Knöpfer in Utrecht, Adriaen van Ostade in Haarlem, and with Jan van Goyen in The Hague. While some of these supposed influences are more difficult to discern in his work, the impact of Isaac van Ostade and of the Rembrandt student Jacob de West, both from The Hague, and of the Utrecht painter Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot, can also be demonstrated. Most of these artists are known primarily for their genre scenes, and with the exception of a small number of early landscapes, it is this subject matter that would occupy Steen throughout his career. However, in addition to a variety of genre types, including outdoor gatherings, tavern scenes, intimate interiors, riotous scenes of domestic upheaval, he painted serious biblical and mythological subjects. Steen developed into a versatile painter, able to work in both the broadly brushed style characteristic of the Haarlem school and the refined technique popularized by the Leiden fiinschilder. — Steen is best known for his humorous genre scenes, warm hearted and animated works in which he treats life as a vast comedy of manners. In Holland he ranks next to Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals in popularity and a 'Jan Steen household' has become an epithet for an untidy house. But Steen, one of the most prolific Dutch artists, has many other faces. He painted portraits, historical, mythological, and religious subjects (he was a Catholic), and the animals, birds, and still-lifes in his pictures rival those by any specialist contemporaries. As a painter of children he was unsurpassed. Steen was born in Leiden and is said to have studied with Adriaen van Ostade in Haarlem and Jan van Goyen (who became his father-in-law) in The Hague. He worked in various towns - Leiden, The Hague, Delft, Warmond, and Haarlem - and in 1672 he opened a tavern in Leiden. His father had been a brewer, and in the popular imagination Steen was a drunken profligate, but there is nothing in the known facts to justify this reputation. Many of his pictures represent taverns and festive gatherings, but they often feature moralizing allusions, and he also painted scenes of impeccable genteelness. Apart from his versatility, richness of characterization, and inventiveness in composition, Steen is remarkable also for his skill as a colorist, his handling of salmon-red, rose, pale yellow, and blue-green being highly distinctive. He had no recorded students, but his work was widely imitated. — LINKS — Self Portrait (1670) — Children Teaching a Cat to Dance (The Dancing Lesson) (1668) — Interior of an Inn — Leiden Baker Arend Oostwaert and His Wife Catharina Keyzerswaert (1658) — Prince's Day (1665) — The Feast of St Nicholas (1666, 82x70cm) _ Steen painted at least six pictures of the Feast of St Nicholas, the festival traditionally dedicated to Dutch children. On the eve of 5 December, St Nicholas comes to the Netherlands from Spain to leave appropriate gifts in the shoes of children. The good ones receive cakes, sweets, and toys; the naughty ones get canes and coals. A complicated play of diagonals helps bind the family of ten together — from the heap of special pastries to the man pointing to the chimney on the right, where St Nicholas made his entry, and from the carved table covered with sweets up to the girl holding the shoe with the distressing birch-rod. Figures which lean in one direction are balanced by those leaning in the other; foreground and background, right and left are held together by gestures, glances, and expressions which give the painting familial as well as pictorial tautness. The smiling boy who points to the shoe makes the onlooker part of this family scene by smiling directly out at him or her. The coloristic effect is brilliant, and does not lack unification or become too diffuse, as is sometimes the case in Steen's work. — The Merry Family (1668) — The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1671) — The Sick Woman (1665) — The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah (1673) |
Died on a 03 February:
1922 John Butler Yeats I, Irish artist born on 12 March 1839. Father of Jack Butler Yeats [29 Aug 1871 – 28 Mar 1957] and of the poet W. B. Yeats. In 1867, after studying law in Dublin, John Butler Yeats moved to London, where he enrolled at Heatherley’s Art School. He later worked under the supervision of Edward Poynter. For the first 20 years of his career Yeats produced illustrations and genre and landscape paintings: ‘Pippa Passes’ (1872), a large gouache, is distinctly Pre-Raphaelite. In the late 1880s he began to realize his gifts as a portrait painter, although his production was hampered by a lifelong inability to finish commissions on time. Over a period of 50 years he produced fewer than 100 oil paintings, his greatest output being pencil drawings. The best of these are of his family and friends. He was an admirer of George Frederick Watts and saw a similarity between Watts’s approach to portrait painting and his own. In an essay on Watts written in 1906, Yeats wrote: ‘the best portraits will be painted where the relationship of the sitter and the painter is one of friendship’. An example of this is his drawing of John M. Synge (1905). The portraits of his family are intimate and reflective, while those of his literary associates convey character and conviction. Yeats’s interest in the modern school originated in his admiration for the tonal naturalism of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, while his understanding of Impressionism was gained through the writings of R. A. M. Stevenson [1847–1900]. The drawings and oils of the turn of the century are in many ways the artist’s most satisfying works.
1850 Guillaume-François Colson, French artist born on 01 May 1785.
1759 Hendrik van Limborch (or Limborgh), Dutch artist born on 19 March 1681.
1753 Philip van Dyk “the little van Dyck”, Dutch artist born on 10 January 1680.
1687 Bernhardt Keil (or Keyl, Keilhau), Danish painter born in 1624. The son of a German painter working at the court of Christian IV of Denmark, he was apprenticed to the Copenhagen court painter Maarten van Steenwinckel [1595–1646] and as a master continued his training (1642–1644) under Rembrandt in Amsterdam. He then opened his own studio and taught young artists until 1651, when he went to Italy. In Venice he obtained commissions for portraits, decorated palaces and was employed by churches and religious orders, painting pictures such as the Virgin with Saint Elia for the Carmelites in Venice and the Virgin and Saint Dominic for the refectory of the monastery of San Bartolomeo in Bergamo. In 1656 he arrived in Rome, where he remained until his death. During his sojourn in Italy he was converted to Catholicism. — The Lacemaker (72x97cm)
Born on a 03 February:
1885 Moses Lévy, French artist who died in 1968.
1883 Camille Bombois, French painter who died on 11 June 1970. As a child he lived on a barge. After working in various rural trades, he became a fairground wrestler in order to live near Paris, moving there to work as a typographer by night so that he could paint by day. In 1922 he exhibited for the first time at the Foire aux Croûtes in the open air at Montmartre. His work was noticed in 1924 by Wilhelm Uhde, who bought nearly all his production and who exhibited his work in the Galeries des Quatre Chemins in 1927. Bombois’s pictures were included in the important exhibition Les Maîtres populaires de la réalité (1937) and in 1944 he was given his first one-man show at the Galerie Pétridès; by the 1960s he had an international reputation as a naive artist.
1864 Mariano Barbasan Lagueruela, Spanish artist who died in 1924.
1851 Wilhelm Heinrich Trübner, German painter who died on 21 December 1917. The son of a goldsmith and jeweler, he began an apprenticeship as a goldsmith. The intervention of Anselm Feuerbach enabled him to overcome his father’s resistance and train as a painter. In 1867 he began to study at the Kunstschule in Karlsruhe, where his tutors included Karl Friedrich Schick [1826–1875]. Trübner also met artists outside the school, such as Hans Canon, who were very influential. Trübner moved to Munich in 1869 to study under Alexander von Wagner [1838–1919] at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, where he also met Wilhelm Leibl. He continued his studies under Wilhelm von Diez [1839–1907] and met Hans Thoma, with whom, for a while, he shared a studio and models. Trübner acknowledged his debt to Feuerbach, Canon, Leibl, and Thoma, whom he described as his ‘leaders and guiding stars’, throughout his life. — Lovis Corinth [21 Aug 1858 – 1925] was a student of Trübner.
1810 Johann Peter Gmelin (?), German artist who died on 24 May 1854.
1807 Genaro (or Jenaro) Pérez Villaamil, Spanish artist who died on 05 June 1854.
1796 Jean-Baptiste Madou, Brussels Belgian artist who died on 03 April 1877. Belgian painter and lithographer. He was a student of Joseph François at the Académie in Brussels. Between 1814 and 1818 he was a clerk in the Ministry of Finance and until 1820 a topographical draughtsman in the Ministry of War. His work was then noticed by the publisher Jobard, who employed him as a lithographer of (largely unsigned) maps, book illustrations, vignettes and portraits. Around 1830 he began to publish in Brussels and Paris portraits and series of lithographs, for example the Outskirts of Brussels (1831), which first drew attention to his name. Madou’s reputation was confirmed with the publication of The Physiognomy of Society in Europe from 1400 to the Present Day (1836), lithographs after his own watercolours. In the subsequent Life of the Painters of the Flemish and Dutch School (1842), Madou showed the taste for historical reconstruction that is also to be seen in the paintings he then began to produce, most of which were genre scenes set in the 18th century. These often show taverns, as in The Spoilsport (1854), or colourful, characterful crowds, as in Village Politicians (1871). Madou brought a strong sense of humour to his evocation of the past in these pictures, while also showing his technical skill in the detail and finish of their treatment.
1688 Dirk Dalens III, Dutch artist who died in 1753.
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