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Thomas Hovenden
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'''Thomas Hovenden''' (
December 28,
1840 -
August 14,
1895),
United States American artist, was born in
Dunmanway Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Ireland.
He was a pupil of the
South Kensington Art Schools and those of the
National Academy of Design, New York, whither he had removed in
1863. Subsequently he went to
Paris and studied in the
École des Beaux Arts under
Alexandre Cabanel Cabanel, but passed most of his time with the American colony in
Brittany, at Pont-Aven, where he painted many pictures of the peasantry.
Returning to America in
1880, he became an academician in
1882, and attracted attention by an important canvas of "The Last Moments of John Brown" (now in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art). His "Breaking Home Ties," a picture of American farm life, was engraved with considerable popular success.
Hovenden was mortally injured in a heroic effort to save a child from a railroad train in the station at
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Germantown, near Philadelphia, and died at
Norristown, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of August 1895.
Among his principal works are:
*"News from the Conscript" (1877)
*"Loyalist Peasant Soldier of La Vendée" (1879)
*"A Breton Interior," "Image Seller" and "Jerusalem the Golden" (in the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
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