Rembrandt Lockwood
Rembrandt Lockwood (* 1815 ; † 1889 ) was an American painter and architect.
Life
Little is known about Rembrandt Lockwood's origins and youth; he probably grew up in the Richmond, Virginia area and began painting there, preferably portraits and altarpieces. In 1845 he stayed in Munich for study purposes . From 1847 to 1858 he lived and worked in Newark . During this time he participated in exhibitions; he showed paintings at the American Art Union in New York. After giving up painting in 1858, Lilly Martin Spencer took over his studio.
Lockwood turned to architecture in 1858 and was apparently successful in the field. He believed he lived in the Brooklyn area from 1863 to 1876. For example, the neo-Gothic Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church on 126th Street in New York was built according to his plans between 1869 and 1871. It originally served as a place of worship for the St. James Methodist Episcopal Church of Harlem.
The Last Judgement
Lockwood's most monumental painting was probably a Last Judgment , which he had already started to paint in Munich, worked on in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , and finally completed in Newark. There were about 1,500 figures in the giant picture, and at 27 by 17 feet, it could only be hung in the Newark Concert Hall. A sketch for this work is in the Newark Museum today.
Offspring and traces
Lockwood's daughter Frances , who was also his student, was 17 when he left the family. She became a well-known illustrator. Another daughter of Lockwood was the portrait painter Helen Colburn . His granddaughter Helen Frances Colburn also became an artist. Papers and pictures from the family's estate are stored in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art; other materials, in particular on Lockwood's architectural work, are in the Selma Rattner estate at Columbia University.
Web links
literature
- Maxine N. Lurie and Marc Mappen (eds.), The Encyclopedia of New Jersey , Rutgers University Press 2004, ISBN 0-813-53325-2 , p. 37.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/MetroCommMeth.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2009 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.
- ↑ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/avery/rattner/ldpd.6229570.001b.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lockwood, Rembrandt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1815 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1889 |