Artists CDVs

Artists

AR3. John & Charles Watkins, London. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Noted English artist and caricaturist. CDV. VG. $135

AR12. Fradelle & Young, London. John Everett Millais (1829-1896), Pre-Raphaelite English painter with palette. Cabinet Card. VG. $200

AR16. McLean & Co., London. John Leech (1817-1864). Popular English humorous artist; contributed 3000 drawings to Punch. Trim along bottom o/w VG. $75

AR22. Pierson, Paris. Adolphe Yvon (1817-1893). Prolific French artist of historical, religious, military, genre, and portraits. Trained under Paul Delaroche at the Ecole des Beauz-Arts in Paris. Made his salon debut in 1841, won a succession of medals, became a member and an officer of the Legion of Honor. In 1861 he painted a portrait of Prince Imperial, in 1868 he painted the emperor. CDV. VG. $75

AR24. Ch. Reutlinger, Paris. Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864). French Neoclassical painter. Trimmed at bottom. CDV. G. $60

AR25. E. Desmaison, Paris. Charles-Francois Jalabert (1819-1901). Student of Delaroche, popular French artist. CDV. VG. $45

AR26. Etienne Carjat & Co., Paris. Florent Willems (1823-1905). Portrait and genre artist, born in Belgium. CDV. VG. $50

AR27. Bingham, Paris. Louis-Edouard Dubufe (1819-1883). French painter. With second CDV of his artwork. VG. $50

AR28. Carjat & Co., Paris. Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix (1813-1880). French Academic painter and successful engraver. With second CDV of his work of art titled "Contemplation." VG. $50

AR38. W. Cappelen, Christiania, Norway. Hans Jude (1825-1903), Norwegian Landscape painter and professor at Carlsruhe. Hans Gude and Adolph Tideman, in a joint work entitled Bridal Crossing in Hardanger, 1848, describe the calm existence of peasant life in the context of an intricate and spiritual environment. Paintings such as this focused attention on the uniqueness of Norway, proclaiming a true national identity with strong moral beliefs. This painting of "high technical quality" is "perhaps the most popular painting in Norwegian art." Works such as this "can be still numbered among those pre-realist paintings that were gradually to change European Painting" (104). Many Norwegian painters in the Düsseldorf school created works that defined varying positions between man and nature. In Højfjell, 1857, Hans Gude masterfully balances light and subject matter, foreground and background, through a sharp realism and balanced play of light. As painting in the Düsseldorf school moved gradually toward the suggestive, Gude's paintings became more realistic and gave the power of the painting over to the majesty and constancy of nature. In this manner, Gude suggested the plein-air tradition to come. CDV. G. $50

AR41. Charles D. Fredricks & Co., NY. Charles Loring Elliot (1812-1868). Charles Loring Elliot, born in 1812, became an important American Portrait painter. He studied with John Quidor in New York City. From 1829-39, Elliott worked as an itinerant portrait painter across Central New York. After 1839, his work shifted primarily to NYC, where he became the premiere portraitist, succeeding Henry Inman. Among his famous sitters was James Fennimore Cooper. Elliott was able to capture individual characteristics in a straightforward manner, with little idealism or decoration. The viewer’s exclusive attention is directed on the subject without distraction, usually in a neutral background. Elliott painted many prominent writers, artists and politicians of his time. He exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design, NYC, regularly and was elected an associate in 1845. Elliott died in 1868. CDV. G+. $85

AR44. No ID. Thomas Nast (1840-1902). American political cartoonist. CDV. G. $60

AR45. No ID. Julius Leblanc Stewart (1855-1919). American painter, active in France. Son of wealthy expatriate art collector William Steward. He had entree into the salons of rich Americans living abroad & their European friends. In this stratum of social privilege, Stewart found virtually all his subjects. Unmounted CDV. G. $25

AR47. No ID. George Cruikshank (1792-1878). English caricaturist and illustrator. Trimmed. G. $65

AR48. L. Pierson, Paris. Adolphe Yvon (1817-1893). Prolific French artist of historical, religious, military, genre, and portraits. Trained under Paul Delaroche at the Ecole des Beauz-Arts in Paris. Made his salon debut in 1841, won a succession of medals, became a member and an officer of the Legion of Honor. In 1861 he painted a portrait of Prince Imperial, in 1868 he painted the emperor. CDV. VG. $60

AR49. Sarony & Co., NY. Daniel Huntington (1816-1906). After graduating from college, Daniel Huntington studied under Samuel Morse who was then president of the National Academy of Design. Huntington is probably best known for his portraits, though his landscapes elicited comment in The Crayon of May 1858: "M. Huntington was born a landscape painter, and it is to be regretted that the pictures he paints in the high department of Art are not more frequent ... His landscapes seem to be more the pastime of leisure hours than of steady laborious purpose ... [He possesses] a recognition of the spirit and principles of light ... as may be seen in the Mill Pond at Chocorua," a painting exhibited at the National Academy of Design in the same year.

Huntington was a member of the National Academy of Design from 1839 to his death in 1906, president from 1862 to 1870, and president again from 1877 to 1891. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1842 to 1868. He joined the Century Association in 1847 and was its president from 1879 to 1895. He was also vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 33 years.

He often went abroad during his long career, traveling and sketching in Italy, England, and Spain. He seems to have particularly enjoyed painting Chocorua while visiting the White Mountains, making sketches there as early as 1854. A view he executed in 1860 was engraved by John Filmore. A friend of Champney and the convivial group who congregated every summer in North Conway to paint and "talk shop," Huntington was often in the White Mountains and produced many sketches of the area. He shared a studio with many associates at Jackson, New Hampshire maintained by Samuel Colman. Among those associates were George Loring Brown, Frank Henry Shapleigh, Asher Brown Durand, and Aaron Draper Shattuck. CDV. Trimmed. G. $75

AR51. Sarony & Co., NY. Henry Peters Gray (1819-1877), noted NY portrait painter; President of the National Academy 1869-1871. CDV. Looks like pencil marks at right. G+. $75

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