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1751 Worcester County, Massachusetts - 1801 Bolton, Connecticut. Known for: Portrait, narrative, landscape, history.
A portrait painter, Ralph Earl was one of three-prominent southern New England portraitists who carried on the high standards set by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). With Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)... Read full biography
A portrait painter, Ralph Earl was one of three-prominent southern New England portraitists who carried on the high standards set by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). With Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) and John Trumbull (1756-1843) Earl was trained in England and, returning home, was one of the three... Read full biography
A portrait painter, Ralph Earl was one of three-prominent southern New England portraitists who carried on the high standards set by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). With Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) and John Trumbull (1756-1843) Earl was trained in England and, returning home, was one of the three "first well-trained American painters to walk American soil" (Flexner 65) after the Revolutionary War. They revived a tradition that had just begun to flourish before the interruptions of the War.... Read full biography
A portrait painter, Ralph Earl was one of three-prominent southern New England portraitists who carried on the high standards set by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). With Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) and John Trumbull (1756-1843) Earl was trained in England and, returning home, was one of the three "first well-trained American painters to walk American soil" (Flexner 65) after the Revolutionary War. They revived a tradition that had just begun to flourish before the interruptions of the War. Several times, Earl went to New York City attempting to gain wider attention, but he made little impression and returned to Connecticut where he had first arrived in 1775. In the judgment of American art historians, he became one of the state's most... Read full biography
A portrait painter, Ralph Earl was one of three-prominent southern New England portraitists who carried on the high standards set by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). With Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) and John Trumbull (1756-1843) Earl was trained in England and, returning home, was one of the three "first well-trained American painters to walk American soil" (Flexner 65) after the Revolutionary War. They revived a tradition that had just begun to flourish before the interruptions of the War. Several times, Earl went to New York City attempting to gain wider attention, but he made little impression and returned to Connecticut where he had first arrived in 1775. In the judgment of American art historians, he became one of the state's most historically significant artists, but during his lifetime, his reputation was diminished by his intemperance and apparent immorality in that he c... Read full biography
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Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Folk Art, Naive, Primitive
- •High Style, Historical Painting
- •Naive, Childlike, Intuitive
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Narrative, Story Telling
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •War Scenes, Military Genre, Figure, Portrait, Battles
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Colonial America
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Europe
- •Litchfield, Connecticut
- •Niagara Falls
Art Teacher
- •Benjamin West
Chronology
- •18th Century
Added Description
- •Portrait Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition By An Art School
- •Royal Academy of the Arts, England