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Académie Delécluse
The Académie Delécluse was an atelier-style art school in Paris, France, founded in the late 19th century by the painter Auguste Joseph Delécluse. It was exceptionally supportive of women artists, with more space being given to women students than to men. History The academy was founded by the French painter Auguste Joseph Delécluse in the late 19th century, and seems to have been in business starting in either 1884 or 1888. The school moved locations several times before establishing a permanent location in Montparnasse on the 84 Rue Notre Dame des Champs. Like the Académie Julian, Académie Colarossi, and Académie Vitti, this school accepted women students. Men and women were trained separately, and it had two studios for women and only one for men. This proved to be particularly popular among English and American women artists. During its heyday, it was one of the four best-known ateliers in Paris, but its influence and ability to attract good students waned in the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Joseph Delécluse
Auguste Joseph Delécluse (1855–1928) was a French painter and educator, known for his still life and portraiture paintings. He founded the Académie Delécluse. Biography Auguste Joseph Delécluse was born 23 April 1855 in Roubaix, France. He studied with Jean-Joseph Weerts, Carolus-Duran, and Paul-Louis Delance. Delécluse first participated in the Salon Salon may refer to: Common meanings * Beauty salon, a venue for cosmetic treatments * French term for a drawing room, an architectural space in a home * Salon (gathering), a meeting for learning or enjoyment Arts and entertainment * Salon (P ... in 1880. The Académie Delécluse was an atelier-style art school in Paris founded by Auguste Joseph Delécluse in the late 19th century.Butlin, Susan''The Practice of Her Profession: Florence Carlyle, Canadian Painter in the Age of Impressionism'' vol. 1. McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2009. Delécluse died on 13 December 1928 in Paris. References 1855 births 1928 deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Elwes
Lt. Col. Simon Edmund Vincent Paul Elwes, (29 June 1902 – 6 August 1975) was a British war artist and society portrait painter whose patrons included presidents, kings, queens, statesmen, sportsmen, prominent social figures and many members of the British Royal Family. He was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Biography Elwes (pronounced "El-wez") was born on 29 June 1902 at Hothorpe Hall in Northamptonshire (also near Theddingworth, Leicestershire), the sixth and youngest son (two daughters were born later) of famed tenor Gervase Cary Elwes (1866–1921), and his wife, Lady Winifride Mary Elizabeth Feilding, daughter of the 8th Earl of Denbigh. He was the scion of the recusant Cary-Elwes family, of which many branches are known simply as "Elwes", which includes noted British monks and bishops, such as Abbot Columba Cary-Elwes, Bishop of Northampton Dudley Cary-Elwes and Father Luke Cary-Elwes. His niece, Polly Elwes, was a famous television personality in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Rix Nicholas
Hilda Rix Nicholas ( Rix, later Wright, 1 September 1884 – 3 August 1961) was an Australian artist. Born in the Victoria (Australia), Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionism, Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin, at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1902 to 1905 and was an early member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Following the death of her father in 1907, Rix, her only sibling Elsie and her mother travelled to Europe where she undertook further study, first in London and then Paris. Her teachers during the period included John Hassall (illustrator), John Hassall, Richard Emil Miller and Théophile Steinlen. After travelling to Tangier in 1912, Rix held several successful exhibitions of her work, with one drawing, ''Grande marché, Tanger'', purchased by the French government. She was one of the first Australians to paint Post-Impressionism, post-impressionist landscapes, was mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedric Morris
Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Baronet (11 December 1889 – 8 February 1982) was a British artist, art teacher and plantsman. He was born in Swansea in South Wales, but worked mainly in East Anglia. As an artist he is best known for his portraits, flower paintings and landscapes. Early life Cedric Lockwood Morris was born on 11 December 1889 in Sketty, Swansea, the son of George Lockwood Morris, industrialist and iron founder, and Wales rugby international, and his wife Wilhelmina (née Cory, see Cory baronets). He had two sisters – Muriel, who died in her teens, and Nancy (born in 1893). His mother had studied painting and was an accomplished needlewoman; on his father's side he was descended from Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, whose sister Margaret married Noel Desenfans and helped him and his friend, Francis Bourgeois, to build up the collection now housed in the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Cedric was sent away to be educated, at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, and Chart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Lownes
Anna Lownes (December 19, 1842 – January 4, 1910), (active 1884–1905) was an American painter of still lifes. She was born in Delaware County, Pennsylvania to Phineas Lownes and Emily Lewis, a niece of manufacturer and philanthropist John Price Crozer. Lownes studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and at the Académie Delécluse in Paris. She was a pupil of Milne Ramsey. She exhibited work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and National Academy of Design; from 1885 to 1887 catalogs gave her address as Media, Pennsylvania, but in later years she was said to have moved to 1708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Lownes exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. A ''Study of Apples'' dated to before 1890 was included in the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Leith-Ross
Harry "Tony" Leith-Ross (27 January 1886 – 15 March 1973) was a British-American landscape painter and teacher. He taught at the art colonies in Woodstock, New York and Rockport, Maine, and later was part of the art colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania. A precise draftsman and a superb colorist, Leith-Ross is considered one of the Pennsylvania Impressionists. Life and career Harry Leith-Ross was born in Saint Pierre, Mauritius – an island in the South Indian Ocean – the son of banker Frederick William Arbuthnot Leith-Ross and Sina van Houten. His mother was the daughter of Dutch politician Samuel van Houten, and his younger brother was Scottish economist Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. Leith-Ross was educated in England and Scotland, and studied engineering at the University of Birmingham for a year. He emigrated to the United States at age 17 in 1903, and worked for his uncle's coal company. He subsequently took up advertising work in Denver, Colorado. He travelled to Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Lazzell
Blanche Lazzell (October 10, 1878 – June 1, 1956) was an American painter, printmaking, printmaker and designer. Known especially for her Woodcut#White-line woodcut, white-line woodcuts, she was an early modernism, modernist American artist, bringing elements of Cubism and abstraction into her art. Born in a small farming community in West Virginia, Lazzell traveled to Europe twice, studying in Paris with French artists Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, and André Lhote. In 1915, she began spending her summers in the Cape Cod art community of Provincetown, Massachusetts, and eventually settled there permanently. She was one of the founding members of the Provincetown Printers, a group of artists who experimented with a white-line woodcut technique based on the Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Biography Early life and education Nettie Blanche Lazzell was born on a farm near Maidsville, West Virginia, to Mary Prudence Pope and Cornelius Carhart Lazzell. Her father was a direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Law (artist)
Andrew Law (1873–1967) was a Scottish artist and portrait painter. Law rarely exhibited outside of the west of Scotland, but, during a long career based on private commissions, he produced a significant body of work. Life and work Law was born at Crosshouse in Ayrshire, where his father was a miner and later a publican. Law went to school in Kilmarnock and took evening classes at the Kilmarnock Academy. In 1891, he was awarded the National Medal for Success in Art and won a place at the Glasgow School of Art, where his tutor was Fra Newbery. In 1896, Law was awarded a travelling scholarship and spent six months studying in Paris, where he took lessons from Robert Henri and attended classes at the Académie Delécluse. Law returned to Kilmarnock and began a successful career accepting private portrait commissions. Law married Elizabeth Wilson in 1912, and the couple moved to Glasgow, where Law continued with his commissioned work. Among these commissions was the full-leng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Sarah Kinkead
Alice Sarah "Kinkie" Kinkead (1871–1926) was an Irish artist, she known as a Painting, painter and later in life a silversmith. Life Kinkead was born in Tuam in Galway in 1871. Her father, Dr. Richard John Kinkead, General practitioner, GP (1844–1928), was appointed professor of Gynaecology at National University of Ireland, Galway in 1876, wherein the family moved to Forster House in the town. Kinkead attended Académie Delécluse in Paris and also was educate in Galway. She moved permanently to London in her career as an artist. Her associates included Edith Anna Somerville, Violet Florence Martin, Lady Gregory, W.B. and Jack Yeats, Frances Perkins, Ethel Smyth. Her brother Francis died in a tragic drowning accident on Lough Corrib in August 1887. Her surviving brother, Captain Richard Kinkead, R.A.M.C., was killed in action at Ypres on 30 October 1914. While in Corsica in 1921, Alice Kinkead befriended the writer, Joseph Conrad. This friendship led to her painting his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Noble Ives
Sarah Noble Ives (March 1864 – November 1944) was an American writer, illustrator, and historian known for her children's books including ''Dog Heroes of Many Lands'' and ''Songs of the Shining Way''. Her work also appeared in publications like the '' New York Herald Tribune'', the ''Boston Globe'', and ''McClure's'', sometimes under the name Noble Ives. Later in her life she researched and published a history of Altadena, California. Early life Ives was born in Grosse Ile, Michigan, near Detroit, in March 1864, to S. William and Sarah Mana Hyde Ives. She attended Port Huron High School, where she first began studying art, and a Training School for Elocution and Literature run by Mrs. Edna Chafee Noble, who was a suffragette and a role model to Sarah. She continued her education first in New York City at the School for Artists and Artisans and then in Paris at the Académie Julian and Académie Delécluse. When she returned to the United States she began work as a freelance a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Beatrice How
Julia Beatrice How (16 October 1867 – 19 August 1932) was a British painter active in France. Biography How was born in Bideford, Devon to a family of silversmiths. She was the youngest of her family, and both of her parents died before she was an adult. She moved with her family to Bournemouth, Bournesmouth and attended the Herkomer School at Bushey, Hertfordshire. She then moved to Paris to study at the Académie Delécluse, Academie Delecluse around 1893, and began exhibiting in 1902 at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where she exhibited around 147 works throughout her career. While in Paris, she was introduced to the work of Rodin, Polin, Besnard and Lucien Simon, whose works may have influenced her art. She eventually set up a workshop in Étaples. How painted various subjects, including nudes, portraits of children, and fruit and flower studies, and worked using a variety of media, including pastels, crayons, oils, and watercolor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Purdy Hess
Lydia Purdy Hess (April 8, 1866 – November 30, 1936) was an American artist best known for her ''Portrait of Miss E. H.'', which was exhibited at the Paris Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Early life and education Lydia Purdy Hess was born on April 8, 1866, in Newaygo, Michigan. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1886. According to School of the Art Institute records, she studied with Désiré Laugée at Académie Delécluse, and taught at the School from 1891 to 1895. Hess also served as assistant to the sculptor Lorado Taft. In 1894, Hess was in residence at St. Charles, Illinois. Career Hess's ''Portrait of Miss E. H.'' was exhibited at the Paris Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1892; at the Penns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
