Edmond Reuel Smith

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Edmond Reuel Smith , also Edmund Reuel Smith (born February 2, 1829 in New York City , † June 16, 1911 in Skaneateles , Onondaga County , New York ), was an American landscape painter and travel writer .

Life

Cobweb Cottage , aka The Cove , was built around 1850 and expanded in 1904 by Edmond Reuel Smith in the style of the Gothic Revival , photo 2009

Smith, one of two sons of the merchant Reuel Smith (1789-1873) and his wife Celestia A. Mills († 1829), grew up in New York City. There the father and Drake Mills founded the Smith & Mills company, a trading company that shipped cotton, sugar and rice from the southern states to England. In the summer of the 1840s and 1850s, Smith also lived in the town of Skaneateles on Skaneateles Lake , where Smith's father, who retired from his company from around 1845, bought land in the 1840s and a property in 1849, around the end of his life as a gentleman farmer to spend. There belonged the bookseller and painter John Dodgson Barrow (1824-1906), who is considered a representative of the second generation of the Hudson River School , to Smith's circle of friends. Smith received a school education in Geneva and worked briefly at the United States Embassy in Paris . Smith studied at Georgetown University until 1848 , after which he attended Yale University to study botany, zoology, mineralogy and Spanish. In 1849 he took part as a draftsman and assistant to the astronomer and naval officer James Melville Gilliss on his South America expedition to explore the parallax of the sun . In 1853 he traveled to Chile , especially the Araucanian region , where he dealt ethnographically with the life and culture of the Mapuche , and wrote a travelogue about it , which he published in 1855 with his own illustrations under the title The Araucanians . At the end of the 1850s he stayed in Europe to deepen his painting skills. In 1858 he became a member of the artists ' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf , then the center of the Düsseldorf school of painting and the center of a US painters' colony around Emanuel Leutze . From Düsseldorf he traveled to Rome . Then he traveled to North Africa ( Algiers , Biskra ). In 1859 Smith exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York City. In 1860 he married Elizabeth DeCost Burnett (1848–1900), a daughter of a distinguished Skaneateles family, who gave birth to five children: Leslie (1862), DeCost (1864–1939, also became a painter), Celestia (1866), Burnett (1877) ) and Sedgwick (1887). When his father died in 1873, he inherited a sizable fortune that enabled him to finance an independent life. He lived with his family in Skaneateles and was the director of the local library. He wrote verses, painted (often tropical landscapes), lectured, and taught languages. In 1904 he had the architect Archimedes Russell (1840–1915) renew the Cobweb Cottage , which was built by Alexander Jackson Davis in the neo-Gothic style of the Gothic Revival between 1848 and 1852 based on the models of Andrew Jackson Downing by Alexander Jackson Davis on his property on West Lake Street , known today under the name The Cove , since 1979 registered on the National Register of Historic Places in New York .

Works (selection)

The Zamacuca , book illustration from The Araucanians , 1855

Paintings, drawings

  • Panoramic View from the Summit of Santa Lucia, Santiago , drawing around 1850, template for the lithograph by Thomas S. Sinclair (1805–1881)
  • Indian Summer , until 1859
  • Entrance to a Wood near Düsseldorf , until 1859
  • Fall Brook, Skaneateles Lake , to 1859
  • Tropical landscape , 1886

Fonts

  • Letters from Cobweb Cottage . Prose, published under the pseudonym "Walter Wildrake" in The Home Journal by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867), 1853
  • Our village: Lines delivered before the Skaneateles Lyceum, at the close of their course of lectures for the Winter of 1853−4, March 28th, 1854 . Moses, Auburn (New York) 1854
  • The Araucanians; or, Note of a Tour among the Indian Tribes of Southern Chili . Travel report with illustrations, Harper & Brothers, New York City 1855 ( digitized )

literature

  • Peter Hastings Falk (ed.): Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975 . Sound View Press, Madison (Connecticut) 1999, p. 3427
  • Smith, Edmond Reuel (1829-1911) . In: Katherine Manthorne: Tropical Renaissance North American Artists: Latin America 1839–1879 . Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1989, pp. 188 f., 235

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmond Reuel Smith in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ Kihm Winship: Two Reuel Smiths , website from June 16, 2014 in the kihm6.wordpress.com portal , accessed on January 13, 2017
  3. ↑ Finger Lake Artists: John D. Barrow , website at jsuttongallery.com , accessed on January 13, 2017
  4. ^ Wendell W. Huffman: The United States Naval Astronomical Expedition (1849-52) for the Solar Parallax . In: Journal for the History of Astronomy , Volume 22, No. 69, 1991 p. 211 ( bibcode : 1991JHA .... 22..208H )
  5. ^ Review of the book and the trip with illustrations by Otto Grashof in: Die Araukaner . In: Karl Andree (Ed.): Globus. Illustrated magazine for country and ethnology . Fifth volume, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Hildburghausen 1864, p. 376 f. ( Google Books )
  6. ^ Reception of the book and Smith's research from a cultural anthropological point of view in: André Menard: Edmond R. Smith's writing lesson: Archive and representation in 19th-century Araukanía . In: Adrien Delmas, Nigel Penn (ed.): Written culture in a colonial context: Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 . UCT Press, Cape Town, South Africa 2011, ISBN 978-1-9198-9526-0 , p. 59 ( Google Books )
  7. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay 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. 440
  8. ↑ George C. Groce, David H. Wallace (Eds.): The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860 . New Haven 1957, p. 587
  9. ↑ Merchant, Scholar, Painter, Sailor: Some Smiths , website in the portal alexanderjacksondavis-skanesteles.com , accessed on January 13, 2017
  10. ↑ Germán Hidalgo, Italo Cordano (Universidad Catolica de Chile, Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, Escuela de Arquitectura): Taller de Investigación: Santiago en 1850. La mirada urbana de la expedición astronómica de James Melville Gilliss , AQT 006H PDF ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / arquitectura.uc.cl
  11. ↑ Alexander J. Wall, Arthur Sutherland, Eugene A. Hoffman: National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1826-1860 . Volume II (M – Z), The John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund Series, LXXV, The New-York Historical Society, New York 1943, p. 130, nos. 292, 562, 752 ( digitized )
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Edmond Reuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Edmund Reuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape painter and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1911
Place of death Skaneateles , Onondaga County , New York