1892 (ca.), George Hitchcock, Dutch Landscape -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label:
George Hitchcock came from a line of distinguished New England families. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, and an 1872 Brown University graduate, he received his Harvard law degree in 1874. Practicing law held no appeal for him and in 1879 he left for Europe determined to be an artist. When he arrived in Paris, he entered the Académie Julian and took classes with Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888) and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911). By the late 1880s Hitchcock's reputation was well established. He had paintings selected for the Paris Salon (1887-1890); he was included in the American art exhibition at the Universal Exposition of 1889 (where he also served as a selection committee juror); and important private collectors, among them Bertha and Potter Palmer of Chicago, were purchasing his work.
Hitchcock was one of the few American painters who remained abroad. In 1881 he settled in the small Dutch coastal town of Egmond aan Zee, where he was often in the company of American painters Gari Melchers (1860-1932) and Walter MacEwen (1860-1943). As he captured on canvas the colors of the Dutch landscape, he became known as "the painter of sunlight."
1892 (ca.), George Hitchcock, Dutch Landscape -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label:
George Hitchcock came from a line of distinguished New England families. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, and an 1872 Brown University graduate, he received his Harvard law degree in 1874. Practicing law held no appeal for him and in 1879 he left for Europe determined to be an artist. When he arrived in Paris, he entered the Académie Julian and took classes with Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888) and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911). By the late 1880s Hitchcock's reputation was well established. He had paintings selected for the Paris Salon (1887-1890); he was included in the American art exhibition at the Universal Exposition of 1889 (where he also served as a selection committee juror); and important private collectors, among them Bertha and Potter Palmer of Chicago, were purchasing his work.
Hitchcock was one of the few American painters who remained abroad. In 1881 he settled in the small Dutch coastal town of Egmond aan Zee, where he was often in the company of American painters Gari Melchers (1860-1932) and Walter MacEwen (1860-1943). As he captured on canvas the colors of the Dutch landscape, he became known as "the painter of sunlight."