Ella Moss Duval

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Ella Moss Duval (born August 20, 1843 in Lafayette , † June 4, 1911 in St. Louis ) was an American portrait and genre painter .

Life

Ella Amelia Moss was born in Louisiana in 1843 and grew up in New Orleans . The father Samuel Lyons Moss (1811-1870) was a merchant, cotton broker and banker in New Orleans, where he married her mother Isabelle Harris (1819-1907).

At a young age, in the 1850s, she moved to Europe with her mother and older brother Ernest Goodman (1839–1901) in order to avoid the dangers of the approaching American Civil War and to gain the advantage of an uninterrupted upbringing. Ella Moss was endowed with a natural artistic talent since childhood. They lived in Paris, Dresden and Düsseldorf and made occasional trips to the United States. In Dresden they lived at Wienerstraße 4 from 1860 and in 1864 at Ammonstraße 8. In Düsseldorf she lived in the late 1860s on Kaiserstraße , in the early 1870s on Tonhallenstraße and finally until around 1877 on Duisburger Straße. Ella Moss received a thorough education in painting around 1870 as a private student of Wilhelm Sohn . This was reflected in her portrait painting, which bore the features of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . In her last year in Düsseldorf, Ella received the Rome Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . Instead of using it to finance the trip and the annual stay in Rome, she took the money and returned to the United States of America with her mother.

In New York City she opened a successful art studio in 1878 and established herself as a portrait painter. Among other things, she painted Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839–1885), the second wife of the entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt . In 1877 and 1878, Ella Moss exhibited at the National Academy of Design .

In 1879 she married Burr Grayson DuVal (1842-1893) and moved to Texas, where she painted in Austin until 1883 and taught in her studio. Among her students was the painter Ida Weisselberg Hadra (1861–1885).

In the early 1880s, the Duvals moved to San Antonio , where Ella Moss Duval worked in her own studio in her house in Maverick, mainly making portraits, and also working there as an art teacher. During her art career, she advocated the establishment of an art academy in San Antonio.

Ella Moss Duval died in St. Louis , Missouri in 1911 and was buried in Dignowity Cemetery in San Antonio, Bexar County . Ella Moss Duval received recognition as a portrait painter and art teacher . She was also known for her genre painting.

literature

  • Chris Petteys: Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 , GK Hall & Co, 1885, ISBN 978-0-81618-456-9
  • Paula L. Grauer; Michael R. Grauer: Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 , West Texas A&M University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-89096-861-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the grave stone of Ella Moss DuVal is Lafayette LA. Among other things, Pass Christian in the state of Mississippi is also given as the place of birth.
  2. ↑ About the Moss Family , p. 2, in Leslie A. Golomb and Louise Silk: Deez Nites Be All Da Same To Me (PDF) , on silkquilt.com, accessed March 6, 2017
  3. ↑ Moß, Isabella, Banquier's wife, Wienerstr. 4, II. , In the address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden, 1860, p. 139
  4. ↑ Moß, Isabella, Banquiers Eheg., Ammonstr. 8, I. in the address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden, 1864, p. 167
  5. ↑ Moß, wife, Isab. gb. Harris, Kaiserstr. 49 , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1868, p. 107
  6. ↑ Moß, wife, Isab. gb.Harris, Tonhallenstrasse 9 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf, 1873, p. 62
  7. ↑ Moss, sp., G. Harres, Duisburgers. 123 , in: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf, 1877, p. 22
  8. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016): Duval, Ella Moss, from Pass Christian / MS or New Orleans / LA, around 1870 PU from Wilhelm Sohn (PDF) , on smkp.de, accessed on March 6, 2017
  9. ↑ Short biography: Ida Weisselberg Hadra (1861–1885) , on art Genealogie, accessed March 6, 2017
  10. ↑ Burial: Ella Moss DuVal, Dignowity Cemetery, Section A, Row 2, San Antonio, Bear County, Texas, USA , from findagrave.com, accessed March 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Moss Duval, Ella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moss, Ella Amelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Lafayette (Louisiana)
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1911
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri