Henry FewSmith

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Henry FewSmith (* 1821 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ; † October 22, 1846 there ) was an American portrait , nudes and figure painter.

Life

FewSmith, son of the grain merchant Joseph FewSmith senior († 1860), studied painting with John Neagle at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His friend from university Emanuel Leutze , who had traveled to Düsseldorf in 1841 in order to further develop himself at the Royal Prussian Art Academy , he followed to the Rhine in 1842. In 1843 Leutze created a portrait of his friend FewSmith, with whom he shared a room in Düsseldorf. FewSmith took private lessons from the history and portrait painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn . He stayed in Düsseldorf until around 1845. He also traveled to other European art centers: Munich , Paris and Rome . In the fall of 1846, shortly after his return from Europe, FewSmith died in his Philadelphia studio .

literature

  • Maurice Browning Cramer: Henry FewSmith. Philadelphia Artist, 1821-1846 . In: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , Volume 65, No. 1 (January 1941), pp. 31-55.
  • David M. Sokol: Henry Fewsmith and the Düsseldorf academy . In: Antiques , Volume 104, No. 5 (November 1973), pp. 867-871.
  • Rolf Andree, Ute Ricke-Immel, Wend von Kalnein (eds.): The Hudson and the Rhine. The American painters' colony in Düsseldorf in the 19th century . Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1976, p. 98.
  • Sabine Morgen: The broadcast of the Düsseldorf School to America in the 19th century (= Göttingen Contributions to Art History Volume 2). Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7675-3059-1 , p. 1020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Fewsmith , genealogical data sheet in the portal wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com , accessed on November 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Henry FewSmith (1821–46) , data sheet in the collections.si.edu portal , accessed on November 12, 2017
  3. ↑ 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. 430
personal data
SURNAME FewSmith, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American portrait, nude, and figure painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1846
Place of death Philadelphia , Pennsylvania