European History
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O’Keeffe visited the Southwest in 1929 and moved there permanently in 1949; she lived and painted there till she died in 1986. Portrait painters within the U.S. in the nineteenth century included untrained limners similar to Ammi Phillips, and painters schooled within the European custom, corresponding to Thomas Sully and G.P.A. Healy. Middle-class city life discovered its painter in Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), an uncompromising realist whose unflinching honesty undercut the genteel desire for romantic sentimentalism. As a result, he was not notably profitable in his lifetime, although he has since been recognized as one of the vital U.S. artists.
Robert Feke (1707–1752), an untrained painter of the colonial interval, achieved a sophisticated type primarily based on Smibert’s instance. Charles Willson Peale, who gained a lot of his earliest art training by learning Smibert’s copies of European work, painted portraits of most of the essential figures of the American Revolution. Peale’s younger brother James Peale and six of Peale’s nieces and sons— Anna Claypoole … Read More