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Martin Johnson Heade
American Hudson River School painter
born 1819 - died 1904

Also known as: Martin J. Heade.
Student of: Edward Hicks (1780-1849), Thomas Hicks (1823-1890)

HEADE, Martin Johnson, artist, born in Bucks county, Pa. Martin Johnson Heade began his career as a portrait-painter, studied in Italy, traveled in the west, and then settled in Boston as a landscape-painter. This brought him into relations with Rev. James C. Fletcher, who induced him to visit Brazil with a view to preparing an illustrated work on hum-ruing-birds. The difficulties then existing in prop­erly chromo-lithographing his fine designs caused the abandonment of the work, but the pictures were purchased by Sir Morton Peto and taken to London. Mr. Heade has painted many western and tropical scenes, also views on the Hudson and the Massachusetts coast, which are characterized by rich effects of color and light, and by poetic sentiment. His studio is in New York city. Among his best-known works are "High Tide on the Marshes," " Nicaragua., .... Off the California Coast" (which was exhibited at the Centennial ex­hibition at Philadelphia in 1876), and "South American Scene." Martin Johnson Heade has recently sent to exhibi­tions of the Academy "On the St. John's River, Florida " (1885), and " Sunset, Florida" (1886).

"Martin Johnson Heade was born and reared in Lumberville, a small rural community near Doylestown, in Buck's County, Pennsylvania. Martin Johnson Heade was the eldest son in the large family of Joseph Cowell Heed, the owner of a farm and a lumber mill. The youth's first lessons in art were provided locally by Edward Hicks and probably also by Thomas Hicks, Edward's cousin, a rudimentary instruction apparently never replaced by more formal training. Nevertheless, Heade's artistic sophistication increased considerably within a short time, and, around 1840, Martin Johnson Heade took a study trip to England and the Continent, where Martin Johnson Heade spent two years in Rome.

"By 1843, Martin Johnson Heade was living in New York; Martin Johnson Heade then moved to Brooklyn, changed the spelling of his name to Heade, and in 1847 went to Philadelphia. In 1848, a second trip to Rome and perhaps a visit to Paris established his long-standing pattern of extensive, almost constant travel to distant places. His peripatetic nature prevented his establishing himself early in any American city. After returning from Rome, Martin Johnson Heade lived for about a year in Saint Louis, but between 1852 and 1857 Martin Johnson Heade moved at least three other times, to Chicago, Trenton, and Providence.- Heade Martin Johnson oil painting wholesale paintings - Heade Martin Johnson wholesale oil painting picture - wholesale oil paintings picture and Heade Martin Johnson bio, wholesale American oil painting pictures by Heade Martin.

"A turning point in Heade's artistic career came after Martin Johnson Heade returned to New York in 1859 and rented quarters in the Tenth Street Studio Building. Proximity to so many landscape painters, especially Frederic Church, seems to have inspired him, for it signaled the beginning of his development of a personal style and sparked his lasting interest in the landscape's broad panorama and subtle atmospheric effects. Even though New York left an enduring mark on Heade's landscape painting and is the city to which Martin Johnson Heade was most closely bound, Martin Johnson Heade seems not to have put down deep roots even there: Martin Johnson Heade never, for example, joined the National Academy of Design, not even as an Associate.

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