|
Introduction
Help
What's New
Registration
White Mountain Art History
Artist Biographies
Artist Galleries
Subject Galleries
Photo Comparisons
White Mountain Art Exhibitions
Links to Other Sites
Visitor Supplied Information
Bibliography
Credits
Conditions of Use
Site Search
| |
 Lemuel D. Eldred had formal training in Paris
but retained in his best pictures a planar, Yankee austerity that seems at times
primitive, at times modern. Born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, he exhibited
considerable artistic talent as a child. With the support of his parents,
he made his way to the Academie Julien and later embarked on a Mediterranean
tour that included Gibraltar, Venice, Alexandria, and the Nile River. Once
home, he soon established a studio in Boston, the city where he would make his
career.
Eldred was a fairly prolific painter, but he
was an infrequent exhibitor. He contributed six paintings to the Boston
Art Club during the years 1876 to 1886. He exhibited at the American
Society of Painters in Watercolors in 1875 and at the National Academy of Design
in 1876.
Eldred's favorite subject was the sea, a
passion he developed as a youth. He painted costal scenes all along the
shores of Massachusetts, Maine, the Bay of Fundy, and the St. Lawrence River.
References
All that Is Glorious around Us
|
