Alfred Cornelius Howland

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Alfred Cornelius Howland , photo around 1860, Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck , Düsseldorf

Alfred Cornelius Howland (born February 12, 1838 in Walpole , Cheshire County , New Hampshire , † March 17, 1909 in Pasadena , California ) was an American genre , portrait and landscape painter .

Life

Howland grew up as one of five children of the architect Aaron Prentice (Prentiss) Howland (1801-1867), a descendant of the pilgrim father John Howland, and his wife Huldah, née Burke (1806-1886), in Walpole. In 1855 he completed his schooling at the Walpole Academy. In 1857 he worked as a steel engraver in Boston , from 1858 as a lithographer in New York City . At the same time he took lessons in the National Academy School until 1860 . In June 1860 he went to Düsseldorf , where he attended the Royal Prussian Art Academy until 1861 . There were Andreas Müller and Ludwig Heitland his teachers. In the years 1861/1862 he took private lessons with the Düsseldorf landscape painter Albert Flamm . Then he went to Paris and worked with the French landscape painter Émile Lambinet . He also met Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , a representative of the Barbizon School , whose style of painting shaped him from then on.

Forth of July Parade , circa 1860, High Museum of Art

In 1865 he returned to the United States and settled in Boston. He later moved to New York City, where he had a studio on West Fifty-seventh Street. In 1871 he married Clara Ward (1841-1913), the daughter of the respected New York businessman Oliver Delancey Ward. She gave birth to the son Winthrop (* 1873) and the daughter Alice (* 1878). He lived with his family at times in a summer house in Williamstown , Massachusetts . It was there in 1877 that the landscape painter Henry Siddons Mowbray was his pupil.

Howland was best known for his genre painting, which often shows subjects from New England . Examples of this are the paintings The Fourth of July Parade (around 1886), in which he depicts childhood memories of parades on the American Independence Day , and The Old Yale Fence (1889/1890), in which numerous athletes from Yale University are portrayed against the backdrop of the university campus . The picture The Fourth of July Parade was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892/1893 . Howland's paintings were also shown at exhibitions in Paris and Munich.

Howland was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1876 ​​and a full member in 1882. He was a member of the board of this academy from 1880 to 1884. He was also a member of the Century Club , the Salmagundi Club and the Artists' Fund Society . Howland was buried in the cemetery of his birthplace.

literature

  • Howland, Alfred C. In: Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 579.
  • Alfred Cornelius Howland . In: Lyman Horace Weeks (Ed.): Prominent families of New York . New York City 1897, p. 291.
  • George C. Groce, David H. Wallace: The New-York Historical Society's dictionary of artists in America 1564-1860 . Yale University Press, New Haven / Connecticut 1957, p. 330.
  • James F. Carr (adaptation): Mantle Fielding's dictionary of American painters, sculptors and engravers . Carr, New York City 1965, p. 177.
  • Alfred Cornelius Howland . In: David B. Dearinger (Ed.): Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design . Volume 1: 1826-1925, Hudson Hills Press, Manchester / Vermont 2004, ISBN 1-55595-029-9 , pp. 285 f. ( Google Books ).

Web links

Commons : Alfred Cornelius Howland  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. No. 6112 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia )
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 432
  3. ^ Doreen Bolger Burke: A Catalog of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864 . In: Kathleen Luhrs (Ed.): American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 1980, ISBN 0-87099-244-9 , Volume III, p. 326 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Howland, Alfred Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American genre painter, portrait painter, and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Walpole , Cheshire County , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1909
Place of death Pasadena , California