Matthew Hastings
Matthew Hastings (born December 31, 1834 in Georgetown , Washington, DC , † January 23, 1919 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American genre , landscape and portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School , illustrator and photographer .
Life
Hastings, son of Elizabeth Hastings, who was born in Ireland , moved to St. Louis in 1840, where he attended Saint Louis University after school . In St. Louis, he made friends with the German-American painter Charles Wimar , who studied painting in Düsseldorf from 1852 to 1856 . George Caleb Bingham , another painter from St. Louis who was friends with Hastings and who worked as a politician and member of parliament in parallel to painting, traveled to Düsseldorf in 1856 to study painting. Hastings followed their example in 1857 and also traveled to Düsseldorf to study. Until 1858 he was a private student of Philip Moravier Lindo there .
After graduating, Hastings returned to his mother in St. Louis and settled there as a portrait painter. In 1860 he exhibited a portrait at the First Annual Exhibition of the Western Artists' Association , and in the same year at the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association Fair a landscape painting in watercolor, a portrait and a few sketches. Together with Adolph Gandy, Hastings ran the Hastings and Gandy photo studio in St. Louis in 1865/1866 . He also went on study trips within Missouri, for example to the Arcadia Valley in the St. Francois Mountains. Around 1870 Hastings was possibly a participant in an expedition led by the Jesuit Pierre-Jean De Smet to proselytize Indians on the upper Missouri River . In any case, Hastings created watercolor illustrations of these Indian missions. During the First World War he created a poster for the recruitment of American soldiers. A total of around 600 paintings and a large number of sketches and drawings are assigned to Hastings. Caricatures are also from his pen.
literature
- George C. Groce, David H. Wallace: The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860 . Yale University Press, New Haven 1957, 4th Edition 1969, p. 299.
- Jane A. Reynard: Painting and Sculpture in St. Louis approx. 1800-1860 . Student paper, University of Missouri, Columbia 1975, p. 213.
- Ross J. Kelbaugh: Directory of Civil War Photographers . Volume 3: Western States and Territories . Historic Graphics, Baltimore 1992, 2nd Edition, p. 59.
- Hastings, Matthew . In: Peter E. Palmquist, Thomas R. Kailbourn: Pioneer photographers from the Mississippi to the continental divide. A biographical dictionary, 1839-1865 . Stanford University Press, Stanford / California 2005, p. 312 ( Google Books ).
Web links
- Christopher Gordon (adaptation): Art and Artists Collection, 1806–1998 . Missouri Historical Society Archives, June 2004, p. 2 ( PDF )
- Matthew Hastings , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 431
- ↑ John J. Killoren: The Doctor's Scrapbook: A collaboration of Linton and De Smet . In: Gateway Heritage. Quarterly Journal of the Missouri Historical Society . St. Louis / Missouri, Winter 1985/1986, p. 3 ff. ( PDF )
- ↑ Pamela R. Byrne, Susan K. Kinnell: People and the Arts in North America. Summaries of Biographical Articles in History Journals . University of California, ABC-CLIO Verlag, Santa Barbara / California 1988, ISBN 978-0-8743-6541-2 , p. 60
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| SURNAME | Hastings, Matthew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American genre, landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School, illustrator and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Georgetown , Washington, DC |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1919 |
| Place of death | St. Louis , Missouri |