- William Stanley Haseltine
Infobox Artist
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name = William Stanley Haseltine
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caption = William Stanley Hazeltine, "Cascade"
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birthdate = birth date |1835|6|11|
location =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
deathdate = death date and age |1900|2|3|1835|6|11|
deathplace =Rome, Italy
nationality = American
field =Painting ,Draftsman
training =University of Pennsylvania ,Harvard University
movement =Luminism (American art style)
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awards =William Stanley Haseltine (June 11, 1835-February 3, 1900) was an American painter and
draftsman who was associated with theHudson River School and Luminism.Biography
Born in
Philadelphia to John Haseltine, a successful businessman, and Elizabeth Shinn Haseltine, an amateur landscape painter, Haseltine studied at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and then atHarvard University , where he received a degree in 1854. He first exhibited his paintings the following year at thePennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts , after which he sailed to Europe, first joining a colony of American painters who were studying inDüsseldorf , then traveling up theRhine intoSwitzerland andItaly . In late 1857 he settled inRome , and in the following months made numerous excursions to draw the landscape around Rome and onCapri .In 1858 Haseltine returned to Philadelphia, and by late 1859 was installed in the
Tenth Street Studio Building inNew York City , then a central point for American landscape painters; also in the building wereFrederic Edwin Church ,Albert Bierstadt , andWorthington Whittredge , the latter two having befriended Haseltine in Europe. Though many of his paintings from this time derived from his European sketches, Haseltine also began to paint the oceanside ofNew England , especially favoring the rockbound coasts ofNarragansett, Rhode Island ,Nahant, Massachusetts , andMount Desert Island, Maine . The precision with which he painted these landscapes won critical praise, and Haseltine was elected an Associate of theNational Academy of Design in 1860, and a full Academician in 1861.In 1864 Haseltine's wife died in childbirth, and the artist remarried in 1866. Initially the family considered settling in
Paris , but in 1867 they moved to Rome, which would for most of Haseltine's subsequent years serve as his home and point of departure from which to produce views of the European landscape. While his paintings of Capri andSicily would prove popular with visiting American tourists, Haseltine also traveled and drew inFrance ,Holland ,Belgium , and theNetherlands , summering inBavaria and theTyrol in the 1880s and 1890s. In his later years he also returned periodically to the United States, making a final trip to the west in 1899.Haseltine died of
pneumonia in Rome in 1900.ee also
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List of Hudson River School artists References
* [http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?14250 Haseltine biography, National Gallery of Art]
* [http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa245.htm "William Stanley Haseltine (1835-1900): Drawings of a Painter", by John Wilmerding]
*Simpson, Marc, et al, "Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine". The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992. ISBN 0-88401-071-6ee also
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List of Hudson River School artists External links
* [http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=14250 Paintings at the National Gallery of Art]
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