This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...study to work in oil. He is a close student of nature, and his contributions to the Academy display in the Spring of 1891 was accorded uniform praise. 96. Wood Interior. The forest is brightened by the tints of autumn. Amid the foliage the sunbeams make brilliant play. At the left a girl drives a flock of sheep into ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...study to work in oil. He is a close student of nature, and his contributions to the Academy display in the Spring of 1891 was accorded uniform praise. 96. Wood Interior. The forest is brightened by the tints of autumn. Amid the foliage the sunbeams make brilliant play. At the left a girl drives a flock of sheep into the foreground. Signed at the right and dated 1890. Thomas Hovenden. It is an attestation of the energetic nature as well as of the latent ability of Thomas Hovenden that his serious study of art cannot be said to have begun before he had reached middle age. He was born at Dunmany, Ireland, in 1840. He obtained some lessons in drawing at the Cork School of Design in the leisure permitted him by daily labor, and coming to the United States in 1863, continued his night studies at the National Academy, being still compelled to reserve his daytime for the gaining of his subsistence. Finally, in 1874, at an age when men commonly consider the direction of their lives marked out, he found himself in a position to gratify the ambition that from boyhood had burned within him. In Paris he spent six years in study at the School of Fine Arts and under Alexander Cabanel, and in 1878 exhibited at the Salon a picture whose subject was taken from the Vendean wars of 1793, that created a sensation. He returned to New York in 1880, and in 1882 was elected a member of the National Academy, to whose exhibitions he had regularly contributed while abroad. His election was made upon his exhibit of his important poetical composition of Elaine. With his return he soon discarded artificial subjects and foreign inspirations for the material at hand and produced in succession a series of powerful historical compositions, and of studies of negro and of rural life. In 1884, ...
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