John Beaufain Irving

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John Beaufain Irving II (born November 26, 1825 in Charleston , South Carolina , † April 20, 1877 in New York City ) was an American history , genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Irving was the second son of the doctor, rice planter, journalist and racehorse owner John Beaufain Irving (1800-1881) and his wife Emma Maria, née Cruger (1805-1867), born in Charleston, where he initially worked in administration of the family estate after graduating from Charleston College. His interest in art led him to New York City in 1847 for a first brief study of painting. He then continued his artistic training in Charleston. In 1851 he returned to New York City, where he enrolled at the National Academy School . In the years 1851 to 1854 he studied there in the life class , in the years 1852/1853 in the antique class .

In the years 1851-1856 he stayed for longer periods of time in Dusseldorf , where he in the studio by Emanuel Leutze took private lessons. In Düsseldorf Irving stayed in a colony of American painters, which also included Albert Bierstadt , George Caleb Bingham , William Henry Furness , William Stanley Haseltine , Henry Lewis , William Trost Richards , William Dickinson Washington , Charles Wimar and Worthington Whittredge . 1855/1856 Irving was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . In 1857 Irving made his debut at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design in New York City, to which he had sent two of his paintings from Düsseldorf. In the same year he also exhibited a picture in the Eduard Schulte gallery in Düsseldorf. It could have been the privately owned painting Sir Thomas More Taking Leave of His Daughter, Margaret Roper .

In 1858 he returned to the United States to work as a semi-professional portrait painter in Charleston. In 1859 he married Mary Hamilton, who gave birth to nine children in the following years. As a result of the Civil War , which ended slavery as the economic basis of Irving's rice plantation , Irving moved with his family to New York City in 1865, where he established himself as a painter of meticulous history and genre pictures, and in 1868 a studio in the artist house The Tenth Street Studio Building and regularly participated in exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, of which he had become a full member in 1872. 1874 came Irving alongside Carl Ludwig Brandt and David Johnson as a member of the selection committee for the Academy's annual exhibition in the criticism because they had rejected various paintings by John La Farge (1835-1910). In 1875, when Irving had eight children to support, Irving found himself in dire financial straits. When he died two years later, his death was considered a tragedy. August Belmont , a sponsor of Irving, held a benefit exhibition of his art collection in order to support the impoverished bereaved relatives of the painter with the proceeds from this event. Daniel Huntington , President of the National Academy of Design, paid tribute to the deceased in his 1877 address at the Academy's annual meeting.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of Henry Lewis , around 1856
  • Sir Thomas More Taking Leave of His Daughter, Margaret Roper , 1857 at the latest
  • Old Church, Düsseldorf , 1873, National Academy Museum, New York City
  • The Gossips , 1873
  • The Latest News , 1873
  • Self-Portrait, National Academy of Design, New York City

literature

  • John Beaufain Irving . In: David B. Dearinger (Ed.): Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design. Volume I: 1826-1925 . Hudson Hills Press, New York, Manchester 2004, ISBN 1-55595-029-9 , p. 311 ( Google Books )

Web links

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. 432
  2. ^ Sabine Morgen: The Effects of the Düsseldorf School of Painting on America in the 19th Century. 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. 485
  3. ↑ John B. Irving II: Henry Lewis , photo of the portrait painting owned by the Lewis family, Düsseldorf, around 1856 , image in the portal lincoln.lib.niu.edu , accessed on July 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Irving, John Beaufain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American history painter, genre painter and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleston , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1877
Place of death New York City