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Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920 to 2012) An American heiress and philanthropist, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans was the great-granddaughter of tobacco industrialist and Duke University benefactor Washington Duke. She was born Mary Duke Biddle on February 21, 1920 to Mary Lillian Duke and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. Her father was the former U.S. Ambassador to Poland and Spain. Semans was raised in Manhattan, where she attended the Hewitt School in New [...] Click here to continue reading. Rene Lalique Glass Lalique glass, characterized by its high quality lead crystal and frosted or enameled surface, has been made in France since the 1890′s. Rene Lalique (French 1860 to 1945) began as a jeweler making glass paste jewelry before being asked to design perfume bottles for the Coty Co. His designs were so successful and well received that he was quickly recognized as one of the country’s leading glass designers. Much of the [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820 to 1910) In 1872, Whittredge began to spend his summers in Newport, Rhode Island, his family’s ancestral home. His early views of Rhode Island, such as “A Home by the Seaside”,1872 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) centered, not on Newport, but on the rural towns of Middleton, Tiverton and Little Compton and the surrounding valleys and coasts. These panoramic scenes often feature the gable-end, shingle-sided houses that characterized [...] Click here to continue reading. Philip Leslie Hale (American, 1865 to 1931) American Impressionist painter Philip Leslie Hale was born in 1865, son of the prominent Bostonian Reverend Edward Everett Hale. After studying in America with Edmund Tarbell, J. Alden Weir, and Kenyon Cox, Hale first traveled to Paris in 1887 to study at the Academie Julian with Henri Doucet and Joseph Lefebvre and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. A year later he traveled to the artist’s colony [...] Click here to continue reading. Peter Rushton & Peter Maverick Originally from an English family of engravers, Peter Rushton Maverick (1755 to 1807), began as a silversmith in New York City and became an accomplished and celebrated engraver and designer, primarily of bookplates. He was the teacher of his son, Peter Maverick 91780 to 1831), who became well known as an engraver of book illustrations. Father and son were both prominent engravers, artisans and businessmen in the New York [...] Click here to continue reading. Joseph Callender Joseph Callender (6 May 1751 to 10 Nov 1821) A Boston engraver and die-sinker, Joseph Callender (6 May 1751 to 10 Nov 1821) apprenticed with Paul Revere before opening his own State Street die shop, where he worked for the Massachusetts mint and designed seals for Bowdoin College (1798) and other clients. He also designed and engraved numerous bookplates and illustrations for Federal era magazines. In addition to his professional work, Callender [...] Click here to continue reading. Edward Mitchell Bannister (African, American, 1833 to 1901) Edward Bannister started painting in the 1850s in Boston. He never received any formal artistic training but was greatly influenced by the artists of the Barbizon school, especially William Morris Hunt, who frequently exhibited his works in Boston. Bannister focused mainly on painting large, tranquil landscapes, and in 1876, his painting “Under the Oaks” won first prize in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. This was the first [...] Click here to continue reading. Ernest Albert (American, 1857 to 1946) Ernest Albert was born Ernest Albert Brown in Brooklyn, New York in 1857, although he later dropped his surname for professional reasons. Albert began his career as a theatrical set designer in 1877 with Harley Merry at the Brooklyn Theater. His designs were quite poplular, and he was commissioned by theaters across the nation, including New York, Boston and Chicago and St. Louis. Beginning in 1909, he gradually [...] Click here to continue reading. Hans Mangelsdorf (German, American, New Orleans, 1903 to 1991) (German, American, 1903 to 1991) An accomplished New Deal artist of the 1930s and 1940s, German-born Hans Mangelsdorf received his formal art training in Germany and Vienna. In 1929, Mangelsdorf immigrated to America and settled in Louisiana, living in both Shreveport and New Orleans. While in Shreveport he worked as the Assistant Art Curator at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum where he also was enlisted [...] Click here to continue reading. Conrad Alfred Albrizio (American, Louisiana, New Orleans, 1894 to 1973) Conrad Albrizio was born in New York City and trained as an architectural designer, he was an accomplished muralist, working with both paint and mosaic. In 1930 he was commissioned to paint murals in the new State Capitol in Baton Rouge. Albrizio taught art at LSU from 1935 until his retirement in 1954. Information courtesy of Neal Auction Company, September 2011. In 1935 Conrad [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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