Edward Arthur Walton
Edward Arthur Walton (born April 15, 1860 in Barrhead , East Renfrewshire , † March 18, 1922 in Edinburgh ) was a Scottish late Impressionist painter and an important representative of the Glasgow Boys , an artist group from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
life and work
Edward Arthur Walton, from an exceptionally talented family, studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf in 1876/1877 . There were Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein his teachers. In Düsseldorf he also took private lessons with Carl Wagner and Fritz Ebel . He then continued his studies at the Glasgow School of Art , where he met James Guthrie . After completing their training, they applied for admission to the Glasgow Art Club , but were harshly refused. They then left Glasgow and went to Paris . There, together with Joseph Crawhall , they dealt intensively with the French realists , especially with the works of Jules Bastien-Lepage, and for the most part acquired appropriate painting techniques in self-lessons.
After their return to Scotland, Walton, Guthrie and Crawhall devoted themselves to outdoor painting in Rosneath on the coast of Scotland in the summer of 1879 . Walton, Crawhall, James Paterson , George Henry and John Lavery met regularly in William York MacGregor's studio and thus formed the core of the Glasgow Boys . In 1880 Walton painted in Surrey and in 1881 again together with Guthrie, Crawhall and Henry in Brig of Turk , where they did not depict the landscape but instead focused on village life. 1882, Walton was from the village of Crowland in Lincolnshire , inspire its inhabitants and the surrounding countryside. The following year he visited Guthrie, who had moved into a house in Cockburnspath .
Walton made great strides in outdoor painting and the use of oils and watercolors . In 1885 he created A Daydream, one of his most famous works in Cockburnspath . In 1886 he painted a series of watercolors in Helensburgh about the affluent suburb and its well-dressed residents. In the following years he turned away from the realist with French influences and oriented himself on the style of James McNeill Whistler . In 1889 he received his first official recognition and was elected an associate member of the Royal Scottish Academy .
From 1894 to 1904 he lived in the London borough of Chelsea on Cheyne Walk, where he had Whistler and Lavery as neighbors. Walton now painted frequently in Suffolk , where he spent many summers in the Wenhaston rectory . Here he painted rural scenes in oil and watercolor. In 1904 Walton returned to Scotland and settled in Edinburgh. In 1905 he became a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1907 he traveled with Guthrie to Algiers and Spain and in 1913 he worked in Belgium . He later discovered the countryside around Dumfries and Galloway and visited it regularly. In 1914 he was elected President of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor . Walton died in Edinburgh in 1920.
literature
- Fiona Macsporran: Edward Arthur Walton, 1860-1922 , Foulis Archive Press 1988
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 442
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| SURNAME | Walton, Edward Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walton, EA |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish late impressionism painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barrhead , East Renfrewshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1922 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |