Ruff Grouse Still Life
Type:Painting
Size:26.00" x 29.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
William Machen ART FOR SALE
1832 Arnheim, Holland - 1911 Washington District Of Columbia. Known for: Military, landscape, portrait and animal painting.
A Dutch-born painter, William Machen did portraits, landscapes, historical scenes and still lifes. He emigrated from Holland to the United States in 1847, and in the 1880s was in Michigan where he... Read full biography
A Dutch-born painter, William Machen did portraits, landscapes, historical scenes and still lifes. He emigrated from Holland to the United States in 1847, and in the 1880s was in Michigan where he taught art at Detroit College and and Sacred Heart Convent at Grosse Point, Michigan. For nearly... Read full biography
A Dutch-born painter, William Machen did portraits, landscapes, historical scenes and still lifes. He emigrated from Holland to the United States in 1847, and in the 1880s was in Michigan where he taught art at Detroit College and and Sacred Heart Convent at Grosse Point, Michigan. For nearly thirty years, he worked in Toledo and "may have been the most prolific artist in Ohio's history." (Haverstock). Essentially self-taught, he began winning silver medals at the Ohio State Fair in 1852 for... Read full biography
A Dutch-born painter, William Machen did portraits, landscapes, historical scenes and still lifes. He emigrated from Holland to the United States in 1847, and in the 1880s was in Michigan where he taught art at Detroit College and and Sacred Heart Convent at Grosse Point, Michigan. For nearly thirty years, he worked in Toledo and "may have been the most prolific artist in Ohio's history." (Haverstock). Essentially self-taught, he began winning silver medals at the Ohio State Fair in 1852 for his fruit, flower, and wild-game pictures; by the time he died, in Washington, D.C., his studio account-books recorded more than three thousand oils and water colors sold. He exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy, the 1876 Centennial... Read full biography
A Dutch-born painter, William Machen did portraits, landscapes, historical scenes and still lifes. He emigrated from Holland to the United States in 1847, and in the 1880s was in Michigan where he taught art at Detroit College and and Sacred Heart Convent at Grosse Point, Michigan. For nearly thirty years, he worked in Toledo and "may have been the most prolific artist in Ohio's history." (Haverstock). Essentially self-taught, he began winning silver medals at the Ohio State Fair in 1852 for his fruit, flower, and wild-game pictures; by the time he died, in Washington, D.C., his studio account-books recorded more than three thousand oils and water colors sold. He exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy, the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Phildadelphia, the Detroit Artists Association, and the Detroit Museum of Art. In 1865, he was a finalist in a des... Read full biography
William Machen - Art for Sale (2 available)
Grapes & Pears
Type:Painting
Year:1866
Size:7.00" x 9.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Machen is well known in the circle of American still life collectors. Fine examples like this are very hard to come by.