William Stanley Haseltine (June 11, 1835 – February 3, 1900) was an American painter and

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who was associated with the

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, the

Hudson River School The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings typically depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area ...

and Luminism.

Early life and education

Born in

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to John Haseltine, a successful businessman, and Elizabeth Shinn Haseltine, an amateur landscape painter, Haseltine studied at the

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and then at

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, where he received a degree in 1854.

Career

He first exhibited his paintings the following year at the

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, after which he sailed to Europe, first joining a colony of American painters who were studying in

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, then traveling up the

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into Switzerland and Italy. In late 1857 he settled in

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, and in the following months made numerous excursions to draw the landscape around Rome and on Capri. In 1858 Haseltine returned to Philadelphia, and by late 1859 was installed in the Tenth Street Studio Building in

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, then a central point for American landscape painters; also in the building were Frederic Edwin Church,

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, and

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, the latter two having befriended Haseltine in Europe. Though many of his paintings from this time derived from his European sketches, Haseltine also began to paint the oceanside of

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, especially favoring the rockbound coasts of

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, and Mount Desert Island, Maine. The precision with which he painted these landscapes won critical praise, and Haseltine was elected an Associate of the

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in 1860, and a full Academician in 1861. A study of 'The rocks at Nahant' is in Chapter 6 of Rebecca Bedell's 'The Anatomy of Nature'. In 1864 Haseltine's wife died in childbirth. He spent some time training his nephew,

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, until he married Helen Marshall in 1866 and relocated to Europe. Initially the family considered settling in

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, but in 1867 they moved to Rome, which would for most of Haseltine's subsequent years serve as his home and point of departure from which to produce views of the European landscape. While his paintings of Capri and

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would prove popular with visiting American tourists, Haseltine also traveled and drew in

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, and the

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, summering in

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and the

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in the 1880s and 1890s. In his later years he also returned periodically to the United States, making a final trip to the west in 1899. Haseltine died of

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in Rome in 1900
He is buried
at the Protestant cemetery in Rome on Via Caio Cestio, about 5 km from the Episcopal Church of Saint Paul's Within The Walls, of which he was one of the founding members. His son Herbert Chevalier Haseltine became one of the most celebrated sculptors of animals, especially horses. Some of his most famous works were done for clients such as Barbara Hutton and Guy de Rothschild. William's daughter Mildred (Millie), also an artist, married the Roman Prince Ludovico Guardino Carlo Francesco Rospigliosi Pallavicini in Rome in 1904. Above the village of Centrale, hamlet of Zugliano, near Thiene (Vicenza), they built a manor house, named Villa Rospigliosi. After the legal separation Mildred was a benefactor of the country and contributed to the construction of the Cathedral of Thiene with generous donations. There she was also known as Princess Haseltine.

Gallery

File:Brooklyn Museum - After a Shower -- Nahant, Massachusetts - William Stanley Haseltine - overall.jpg, '' After a Shower -- Nahant, Massachusetts (1864) '' - Brooklyn Museum File:Castle rocks at Nahant, Massachusetts.jpg, ''Castle Rocks at Nahant, Massachusetts'' (1865) in the collection at The

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File:1870s, Haseltine, William Stanley, Isle of Capri, The Faraglioni.jpg, ''Isle of Capri: The

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'', 1870s,

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References

Haseltine biography, National Gallery of Art
by

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*Simpson, Marc, et al., ''Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine''. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992.

External links

Paintings at the National Gallery of ArtThe Mariners' Museum
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Early life and education

Career

Gallery

See also

References

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