William Gedney Bunce

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William Gedney Bunce (born September 19, 1840 in Hartford , Connecticut , † November 5, 1916 ibid) was an American landscape and marine painter .

Life

Bunce, son of James M. Bunce and Elizabeth Chester, received drawing lessons from 1856 on from the Dresden-born painter Julius Theodore Busch († 1858) in Hartford, who emigrated to the United States in 1848. As a member of the First Connecticut Cavalry Regiment, Bunce fought on the side of the Northern States in the Civil War , especially in the Shenandoah Valley . After two years he suffered a leg injury, as a result of which he hobbled and was discharged from military service in 1863. He then went to New York City and began to study painting at the Cooper Union , including with the landscape painter William Hart , whom he accompanied on a study trip to Maine in the summer of 1864 .

In 1867 he traveled to Europe . There he stayed until 1879, mainly in Paris , Düsseldorf , Davos , Antwerp and Rome . In Düsseldorf he took private lessons with Andreas Achenbach , in Antwerp with Paul Jean Clays (1819–1900). In Rome he met the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens , with whom he shared a studio in Paris and remained lifelong friends. In Munich , Bunce frequented Frank Duveneck's circle .

In 1879, Bunce returned to the United States and opened a studio in New York City. Nicknamed "The Bishop", he became a member of the New York artists' association Tile Club , which included Saint-Gaudens, Stanford White , William Merritt Chase , Elihu Vedder and Frank Millet , among others .

A Group of Boats, Venice , 1882, Phillips Collection

In the 1880s, on a trip to Venice , Bunce began with sailing ship motifs, which became the hallmark of his tonalistic marine painting. From then on, he commuted between the lagoon city and New York City until the beginning of the First World War. When he was in Biarritz in 1889 , he was introduced to the British Queen Victoria , who purchased a landscape painting from him, which significantly increased his reputation.

In 1898, Bunce was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1902 he was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design and in 1907 a full member. In 1908 Bunce moved back to his hometown Hartford and lived in the house of his sister and brother-in-law. Bunce died crossing a street in 1916, one of the earliest automobile deaths in Hartford.

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Web links

Commons : William Gedney Bunce  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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. 427
  2. ^ Members: William Gedney Bunce. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bunce, William Gedney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartford , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1916
Place of death Hartford , Connecticut