Edwin White

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Self-portrait at the age of 19 , 1836

Edwin D. White (born May 21, 1817 in South Hadley , Hampshire County , Massachusetts , † June 7, 1877 in Saratoga Springs , Saratoga County , New York ) was an American painter .

Life

Edwin White was born on May 21, 1817 in South Hadley , Massachusetts . He studied in Paris , Düsseldorf , Rome and Florence . In Düsseldorf, where he studied in 1850/1851, he was a private student of Carl Wilhelm Huebner . He also received strong suggestions in Düsseldorf from Emanuel Leutze and Carl Friedrich Lessing . Under Leutzes influence, especially under the impression of the so-called Columbus pictures that Leutze had painted in the 1840s, he turned to American history topics. In Düsseldorf he completed the now-lost painting Requiem of De Soto , which he had exhibited in the National Academy of Design in May 1852 . Presumably in the spring of 1852 he continued his European studies in Florence, where he began with the painting Columbus Receiving the Sacraments on the Morning of Embarkation at Palos , which has now also been lost .

In addition to his studies with various American and European painters, he also attended lectures at a medical college in New York , where he studied anatomy . He also attended Amherst College , where he received the master's degree AM in late 1856 . He later also taught at the National Academy Museum and School in New York.

In October 1855 White was in Paris and met the painter Sanford Robinson Gifford there. After White returned to his New York studio, he completed his painting The Compact of the Mayflower , which he sold for $ 1,000, which allowed him to fund the creation of other works. His painting Washington Resigning his Commission was commissioned by the State of Maryland for $ 6,000.

Edwin White died on June 7, 1877 at the age of 60 in Saratoga Springs , New York State .

Works by Edwin White are now in the holdings of the library of Yale University , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the New York Historical Society .

The Mayflower painting was the basis for a 5-cent postage stamp issued in 1920 as part of a series of stamps to mark the tricentenary of the Pilgrim Fathers . An unfinished painting from 1867 on the same subject, begun later, was donated to the Yale University library by the artist.

Works

Washington Resigning His Commission , 1859
Thoughts of Liberia - Emancipation , 1861
  • 1836: Self-Portrait at Nineteen
  • 1848: Self-Portrait
  • 1851: Requiem of De Soto (lost)
  • 1852: The Separation of the Pilgrims at Delft Haven (lost)
  • 1852–1855: Columbus Receiving the Sacraments on the Morning of Embarkation at Palos (lost)
  • 1855-1856: The Compact of the Mayflower
  • 1859: Washington Resigning his Commission
  • 1859: The Landing of the Huguenots in Florida 1564 , Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
  • 1861: Thoughts of Liberia - Emancipation
  • 1862: Major Anderson Raising the Flag at Fort Sumter
  • 1872: Studio Interior
  • Pocahontas Informing John Smith of the Conspiracy of the Indians
  • Fisher boy , now at the Florence Griswold Museum , Old Lyme , Connecticut

literature

  • David Bernard Dearinger: Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925. Hudson Hills Press, New York 2004, p. 12 (on books.google.de )

Web links

Commons : Edwin White  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ^ Sabine Morgen: The broadcast of the Düsseldorf painting school to America. Düsseldorf paintings in America and American painters in Düsseldorf . Göttingen Contributions to Art History, Volume 2, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7675-3059-1 , p. 456
  3. ↑ 5-cent Signing of the Compact. Image of the stamp on arago.si.edu. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME White, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Edwin D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH South Hadley , Hampshire County , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1877
Place of death Saratoga Springs , Saratoga County , New York