Julius Stewart
Julius LeBlanc Stewart (born September 6, 1855 in Philadelphia , Penn .; † January 4, 1919 in Paris ) was an American painter who spent most of his life in Paris.
Life
Julius Stewart was born the son of the American sugar millionaire William Hood Stewart. The family moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Paris in 1865 when Julius was six years old. William Stewart was an art collector and patron of Fortuny and artists of the Barbizon School . As a teenager, Julius studied with Eduardo Zamacois , then with Jean-Léon Gérôme and at the École des Beaux-Arts and later with Raymondo de Madrazo . Julius Stewart began his career as a landscape painter. He was habitual in various literary salons in Paris and in his later years painted mainly opulent portraits of the protagonists of the Paris Belle Époque and scenes from the salons as well as erotically charged female nudes in idyllic landscapes or in interiors . In 1896 he received a large gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin .
Julius Stewart died in Paris on January 5, 1919 at the age of 63 and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery .
Works (selection)
- Horse Trough on a Cuban Plantation (1876), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
- After the Wedding (aka Parisian Wedding ) (1880), Drexel University Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Five O'Clock Tea (1884), Iris & B. Gerald Cantor collection, New York City
- The Hunt Ball (1885), Essex Club, Newark, New Jersey.
- On the Yacht "Namouna", Venice (1890), Wadsworth Atheneum , Hartford, Connecticut
- The Baptism (1892), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Yachting on the Mediterranean (1896), private collection
- The Ladies Goldsmith in the Bois de Boulogne (1897), Musee du Château de Compiègne , France
- La Clairiere (The Glade) (1900), Detroit Institute of Arts
- Les Nymphes de Nysa (The Nymphs of Nysa) (1900), Musée d'Orsay , Paris
- Portrait of Mrs. Francis Stanton Blake (1908), Walters Art Museum , Baltimore , Maryland
literature
- Samuel Isham: The history of American painting . Macmillan, New York 1944.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ After the Wedding ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Drexel University.
- ^ Five O'Clock Tea Artnet
- ↑ The Hunt Ball ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Les Nymphes from Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- ^ Mrs. Blake from Walters Art Museum.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stewart, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stewart, Julius LeBlanc (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1919 |
| Place of death | Paris |