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Albin Martin BIOGRAPHY
1813 Italy - 1888 Auckland, New Zealand. Known for: Painting.
Albin Martin received his formal training from English Painter John Linnell along with fellow pupils Joseph Mallord William Turner and David Cox. He arrived in Auckland from Italy in 1851. While... Read full biography
Albin Martin received his formal training from English Painter John Linnell along with fellow pupils Joseph Mallord William Turner and David Cox. He arrived in Auckland from Italy in 1851. While managing his farm in East Tamaki, he painted and sketched the Auckland isthmus in a style many compared... Read full biography
Albin Martin received his formal training from English Painter John Linnell along with fellow pupils Joseph Mallord William Turner and David Cox. He arrived in Auckland from Italy in 1851. While managing his farm in East Tamaki, he painted and sketched the Auckland isthmus in a style many compared to that of French painter Claude Lorraine. Albin Martin was a founding member of the Auckland Society of Artists and later treasurer for the Auckland Society of Arts and also served on a committee to... Read full biography
Albin Martin received his formal training from English Painter John Linnell along with fellow pupils Joseph Mallord William Turner and David Cox. He arrived in Auckland from Italy in 1851. While managing his farm in East Tamaki, he painted and sketched the Auckland isthmus in a style many compared to that of French painter Claude Lorraine. Albin Martin was a founding member of the Auckland Society of Artists and later treasurer for the Auckland Society of Arts and also served on a committee to judge a competition for a design for the then new Auckland Library and Auckland City Art Gallery. Martins work differed significantly from the topographical style of landscape realism produced by his contemporaries J B C Hoyte and Alfred Sharpe who... Read full biography
Albin Martin received his formal training from English Painter John Linnell along with fellow pupils Joseph Mallord William Turner and David Cox. He arrived in Auckland from Italy in 1851. While managing his farm in East Tamaki, he painted and sketched the Auckland isthmus in a style many compared to that of French painter Claude Lorraine. Albin Martin was a founding member of the Auckland Society of Artists and later treasurer for the Auckland Society of Arts and also served on a committee to judge a competition for a design for the then new Auckland Library and Auckland City Art Gallery. Martins work differed significantly from the topographical style of landscape realism produced by his contemporaries J B C Hoyte and Alfred Sharpe who were also working in Auckland. Martin was a vocal critic of the movement to produce a distinctively New Zealand... Read full biography
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Albin Martin received his formal training from English Painter John Linnell along with fellow pupils Joseph Mallord William Turner and David Cox. He arrived in Auckland from Italy in 1851.
While managing his farm in East Tamaki, he painted and sketched the Auckland isthmus in a style many compared to that of French painter Claude Lorraine. Albin Martin was a founding member of the Auckland Society of Artists and later treasurer for the Auckland Society of Arts and also served on a committee to judge a competition for a design for the then new Auckland Library and Auckland City Art Gallery.
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