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1847 Atlantic, New Jersey - 1915 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Still life, landscape and portrait painting.
Born in Philadelphia and living there for most of his career, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter and remains best known for his highly realistic still lifes, some of them in... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia and living there for most of his career, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter and remains best known for his highly realistic still lifes, some of them in the trompe l'oeil style. However, his version of trompe l'oeil seemed uniquely his own as his use... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia and living there for most of his career, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter and remains best known for his highly realistic still lifes, some of them in the trompe l'oeil style. However, his version of trompe l'oeil seemed uniquely his own as his use of color was quite aggressive, and his paintings combined objects rendered in trompe l'oeil with others that were less precise. He had particular skill in detailed arrangement and composition of... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia and living there for most of his career, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter and remains best known for his highly realistic still lifes, some of them in the trompe l'oeil style. However, his version of trompe l'oeil seemed uniquely his own as his use of color was quite aggressive, and his paintings combined objects rendered in trompe l'oeil with others that were less precise. He had particular skill in detailed arrangement and composition of objects with various textures and reflecting surfaces. Ramsey received his art training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then spent over ten years working and travelling in Europe including study in Paris in the early 1870s with Leon Bonnat.... Read full biography
Born in Philadelphia and living there for most of his career, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter and remains best known for his highly realistic still lifes, some of them in the trompe l'oeil style. However, his version of trompe l'oeil seemed uniquely his own as his use of color was quite aggressive, and his paintings combined objects rendered in trompe l'oeil with others that were less precise. He had particular skill in detailed arrangement and composition of objects with various textures and reflecting surfaces. Ramsey received his art training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then spent over ten years working and travelling in Europe including study in Paris in the early 1870s with Leon Bonnat. During this period, he collected many Oriental artifacts that he subsequently used in his still lifes. In... Read full biography
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Keywords (31)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
- •Trompe l'oeil
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •Philadelphia Sketch Club
Art Teacher
- •Leon Bonnat, Bonnat Atelier, Paris
Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Still Life Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Philadelphia Sketch Club-
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts