Thomas Hovenden

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Thomas Hovenden , photo by Clayton Stone Harris, 1895
Self-portrait, 1875

Thomas Hovenden (born December 28, 1840 in Dunmany , Cork County , Ireland , † August 14, 1895 in Plymouth Meeting , Montgomery County , Pennsylvania ) was an American painter of Irish descent.

Life

Hovenden lost his parents during the Great Famine in Ireland in 1846 . He came to the orphanage and there learned the trade of carver and gilder. For a short time he attended the Government Art School of Cork.

In 1863 Hovenden emigrated to the USA and attended the National Academy of Design (NAD) in New York . In 1874 he took an opportunity to return to Europe. He settled in Paris and soon became a student of Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts . Hovenden also stayed for some time in Pont-Aven (→ School of Pont-Aven ), where he made the acquaintance of Robert Wylie , among others . Through this he met the painter Helen Corson a little later .

In 1880 Hovenden returned to the United States with Helen Corson and married them the following year in their hometown of Plymouth Meeting. His wife's family were vehement opponents of slavery and their farm was a station on the Underground Railroad . The barn, in which Hovenden later set up a studio, was called "Abolition Hall" and served as a meeting place for opponents of slavery.

In the winter of 1881/82 he settled in New York, as he had been entrusted with a teaching position at the NAD as a member ( NA ) of the National Academy. He later went to Philadelphia and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . 1893 took Hovenden with great success at the World's Columbian Exposition ( World's Fair ) in Chicago in part.

Thomas Hovenden died on August 14, 1895 in Plymouth Meeting, where he found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

  • News from the conscript . 1877.
  • In hoc signo vinces . 1880.
  • The last moments of John Brown . 1882/84.
  • Breaking home ties . 1890.
  • Jerusalem , the Golden . 1894.

student

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Hovenden, Thomas NA 1882 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. (accessed on June 26, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org

literature

  • Sarah Burns: The country boy goes to the city. Thomas Hovenden's "Breaking Homes Ties in" America popular culture . In: The American Art Journal , Vol. 20 (1988), Issue 4, pp. 59-73, ISSN  0002-7359
  • Julian Campbell: Thomas Hovenden. A Cork artist in Brittany and America . In: Jane Felon (Ed.): New perspectives. Studies in Art History; in honor of Anne Crookshank . Irish Academy Press, Dublin 1987, ISBN 0-7165-2408-2 , pp. 187-193.
  • Lee M. Edwards: Noble domesticity. The paintings of Thomas Hovenden . In: The American Art Journal , Vol. 19 (1988), Issue 1, pp. 4-38, ISSN  0002-7359
  • Anne G. Terhune (Ed.): Thomas Hovenden (1840–1895). American painter of hearth and homeland . Philadelphia 1995, ISBN 1-888008-00-8 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Woodmere Art Museum, September 10 to December 3, 1995).
  • Anne G. Terhune: Thomas Hovenden. His life and art . University Press, Philadelphia 2006, ISBN 978-0-8122-3920-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Hovenden, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter of Irish descent
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunmany , Cork County, Ireland
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1895
Place of death Plymouth Meeting , Montgomery County, Pennsylvania