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1860 South Pacific (aboard ship) - 1899. Known for: Landscape, interiors, floral outdoor.
John Leslie Breck was an early exponent of the "new painting", avant-garde style, of Impressionism. Born at sea on a clipper ship in the South Pacific, he had a father who was a captain in the U.S.... Read full biography
John Leslie Breck was an early exponent of the "new painting", avant-garde style, of Impressionism. Born at sea on a clipper ship in the South Pacific, he had a father who was a captain in the U.S. Navy. Breck grew up in the Boston area. He obtained his art training at the Munich Royal Academy,... Read full biography
John Leslie Breck was an early exponent of the "new painting", avant-garde style, of Impressionism. Born at sea on a clipper ship in the South Pacific, he had a father who was a captain in the U.S. Navy. Breck grew up in the Boston area. He obtained his art training at the Munich Royal Academy, learning rapid brushstroke and dark Tonalism. Beginning in 1886, he studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, and soon became one of the original settlers of the important Impressionist art colony in... Read full biography
John Leslie Breck was an early exponent of the "new painting", avant-garde style, of Impressionism. Born at sea on a clipper ship in the South Pacific, he had a father who was a captain in the U.S. Navy. Breck grew up in the Boston area. He obtained his art training at the Munich Royal Academy, learning rapid brushstroke and dark Tonalism. Beginning in 1886, he studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, and soon became one of the original settlers of the important Impressionist art colony in Giverny, France. John's brother, Edward Breck, wrote of John's experience in Giverny, in an article of March 8, 1895 in the "Boston Evening Transcript". He describes the summer of 1887, when John, Edward, their mother, as well as Theodore Robinson,... Read full biography
John Leslie Breck was an early exponent of the "new painting", avant-garde style, of Impressionism. Born at sea on a clipper ship in the South Pacific, he had a father who was a captain in the U.S. Navy. Breck grew up in the Boston area. He obtained his art training at the Munich Royal Academy, learning rapid brushstroke and dark Tonalism. Beginning in 1886, he studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, and soon became one of the original settlers of the important Impressionist art colony in Giverny, France. John's brother, Edward Breck, wrote of John's experience in Giverny, in an article of March 8, 1895 in the "Boston Evening Transcript". He describes the summer of 1887, when John, Edward, their mother, as well as Theodore Robinson, Theodore Wendel, and Blair Bruce were the original American colony in Giverny. Curiously, Edward Breck's account of their discovery of Givern... Read full biography
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Keywords (32)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Tonalist, Tonalism
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Interior Scenes
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Europe
- •Giverny, France
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •St. Botolph Club, Boston
Art Teacher
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
Chronology
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Daniel J Terra Collection
- •Pfeil Collection-Impressionists
- •Warner Collection
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •St. Botolph Club, Boston-
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts