Elizabeth Jane Gardner

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Gardner in 1860 ~
Elizabeth Jane Gardner , Portrait of William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1879)

Elizabeth Jane Gardner (born October 4, 1837 in Exeter , New Hampshire , † January 28, 1922 in Saint-Cloud , Hauts-de-Seine ) was an American genre painter .

Gardner attended Lasell Seminary in Auburndale, Massachusetts. There was Imogene Robinson , the recently in Dusseldorf had studied their art teacher. Both began teaching in 1858 as teachers at the School of Design and Fine Arts in Worcester, Massachusetts . The history painting Sunday Among the Pilgrims , which they painted together, received an honorable mention in the Boston Transcript newspaper in 1863 . In 1864 the friends set off on a trip to Paris . In the winter of 1866/67 Gardner came to the Académie Julian and became a student of William Adolphe Bouguereau , Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Hugues Merle . With the support of her teachers, Gardner was the first foreign artist to take part in the major annual exhibition of the Salon de Paris .

In 1872 a picture of her was awarded a gold medal there - as the first female painter ever. During her life she was never able to completely detach herself from the shadow of her teacher Bouguereau, so that pictures of her were repeatedly ascribed to him. In 1896 Gardner married her former teacher William Adolphe Bouguereau and later settled with him in Saint-Cloud near Paris, where she also died.

Works (selection)

  • La fille du fermier , 1887, oil on canvas, 170 × 97 cm
  • L'Imprudente

literature

  • Gardner, Elizabeth Jane . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 192. Digitized
  • Clara E. Waters, Laurence Hutton: Artists of the 19th century and their works . Trübner, London 1893 (2 vols.)
  • Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort: Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau. A Parisian artist from New Hampshire. In: Archives of American Art journal . 24.1984, 2, pp. 2-9 ISSN  0884-6766
  • Charles Pearo: Elizabeth Jane Gardner and the American colony in Paris. "Making Hay while the Sun Shines" in the business of art . In: Winterthur portfolio. A journal of American material culture . Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago 2009. Vol. 43.2009, 4, pp. 275-313 ISSN  0084-0416

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personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Elizabeth Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouguereau, Elizabeth Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American, later French genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Exeter , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1922
Place of death Saint-Cloud , Hauts-de-Seine department