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1841 Charleston, South Carolina - 1919 Ellenville, New York. Known for: Idealized genre, sea-landscape and portrait painting.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 12, 1841, Edward Lamson Henry, with a bent for nostalgia, became a noted painted of super-realistic genre scenes of early 19th century rural America.... Read full biography
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 12, 1841, Edward Lamson Henry, with a bent for nostalgia, became a noted painted of super-realistic genre scenes of early 19th century rural America. With minute detail, these works are now considered old fashioned, but they reflected the love of... Read full biography
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 12, 1841, Edward Lamson Henry, with a bent for nostalgia, became a noted painted of super-realistic genre scenes of early 19th century rural America. With minute detail, these works are now considered old fashioned, but they reflected the love of collecting old things that was stimulated by the 1875 Philadelphia Exposition. He also did portraits, and his series of railroad scenes are particularly notable. As a child, Henry was orphaned and brought... Read full biography
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 12, 1841, Edward Lamson Henry, with a bent for nostalgia, became a noted painted of super-realistic genre scenes of early 19th century rural America. With minute detail, these works are now considered old fashioned, but they reflected the love of collecting old things that was stimulated by the 1875 Philadelphia Exposition. He also did portraits, and his series of railroad scenes are particularly notable. As a child, Henry was orphaned and brought at age seven to New York City where he was raised by relatives. He showed early art talent and began study at age 14 with Walter Oddie. In 1858, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy and then studied in Paris from 1860 to 1862 with Gustave Courbet... Read full biography
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 12, 1841, Edward Lamson Henry, with a bent for nostalgia, became a noted painted of super-realistic genre scenes of early 19th century rural America. With minute detail, these works are now considered old fashioned, but they reflected the love of collecting old things that was stimulated by the 1875 Philadelphia Exposition. He also did portraits, and his series of railroad scenes are particularly notable. As a child, Henry was orphaned and brought at age seven to New York City where he was raised by relatives. He showed early art talent and began study at age 14 with Walter Oddie. In 1858, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy and then studied in Paris from 1860 to 1862 with Gustave Courbet and Charles Gleyre and traveled in Italy. However, he adopted none of Courbet's dramatic painting style. Fully... Read full biography
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Keywords (79)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Photography as Fine Art
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •American Civil War
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Barnyard Fowl, Chickens, Poultry, Roosters
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Narrative, Story Telling
- •New York City
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Railroad Scenes, Railway Art
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
- •War Scenes, Military Genre, Figure, Portrait, Battles
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cragsmoor, New York
- •Europe
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Litchfield, Connecticut
- •Long Island, New York
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Virginia Before 1900
- •West Virginia Before 1920
Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •Boston Art Club
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •Century Club Association, New York City
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •Society of Illustrators-
Art Teacher
- •Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
- •Gustave Courbet
- •Paul Weber
- •Robert Weir
- •Samuel Avery
- •Thomas Pritchard Rossiter
- •Walter Oddie
Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr. Collection
- •John & Dolores Beck Collection
- •Preston Morton Collection
- •Warner Collection
Added Description
- •Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography
- •Genre Specialty
- •Illustration Specialty
- •Narrative Specialty
- •Tenth Street Studio Building Resident, New York
Artist Colony
- •Cragsmoor Artist Colony
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Centennial Exposition 1876, Philadelphia
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Society of Illustrators
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts