Charles Henry Turner (1848-1908) -Oil Painting-Lady Walking Her Cavalier Spaniel

Description: Charles Henry Turner (American, 1848-1908) This dual sided work of art on think paper by Charles Henry Turner Measures 15” x 10” and has the artist’s estate label verso. The front side is down in oil of a well-dressed lady walking a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in a stately garden. The reverse side is (what I believe to be) a self-portrait sketch done in pencil, in a somewhat fine detail, of a young Charles Henry Turner. The painting and drawing are in good overall condition with no visible defects or anything that distracts when viewing. Turner is best known for his detailed portraits and figurative paintings like this dual sided artwork of a young aristocrat lady walking her dog and the self-portrait verso a quintessential example of Charles Henry Turner’s work in the late 19th century. Provenance: From the Estate of Charles Henry Turner Biography: Charles Henry Francis Turner’s early life offered very little indication that he would come to be an artist. After his mother died in 1850, he was reared by his maternal grandparents, William and Theodate Goss, at their homestead in Hampton, New Hampshire. His early affection for the New Hampshire landscape and the Goss homestead is reflected in the innumerable landscapes that he later painted in his summer studio in Jackson, New Hampshire, and in his beach scenes of the Hampton Beach area. Yet, like many other passionate youths, he had been drawn away from home by the adventuresome prospects of a soldier’s life, and he disregarded the regulations about age when he joined the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1864. (He had given his age as eighteen although he was sixteen.) Two years later he was mustered into the Fourth Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army stationed in San Antonio, Texas, where he served for three years. After his stint in the army Turner returned to Boston, where he had lived between his two terms of military service, to seek a career in the business world. He rose to the position of bookkeeper in 1873, the same year that he was married at the Church of the Advent to Elise Hagedorn, but, as his family began to flourish, a business career became less and less appealing. When the Boston Museum School was formed in 1877, Charles Turner saw an opportunity to yield to his “overmastering desire” to be an artist. The lead of the school, Otto Grundmann, became his teacher, and in 1881 Turner became a painter by occupation, pursuing art in the tradition of the nineteenth century academicians. His best exhibited works were portraits and people painted from life and etchings after paintings by American William Merritt Chase and David Neal. Turner travelled to Europe during the early 1880s to see the works of the French, German and Dutch academicians firsthand and to immerse himself in the European cultural heritage. He returned to France in 1887 to realign himself with the work of the French masters, and his subsequent European sojourns refreshed both the subject matter and the stylistic concerns of his work. The paintings that he exhibited at the Boston Art Club in his later years reflected his life with his family as the years passed… Home Alone from Bückeburg Market (1884), essays of fashion from his wife’s German homeland (1889), a portrait of his son in a raincoat (1889) and eighteenth century costume (1891), New England seaside (1895) and his loving portrait of his daughter Gertrude with her first child. At the time of his death in 1908 Charles Turner was best remembered as a portraitist and genre scene painter. A look at his oeuvre by today’s standards, however, produces a different assessment of his work. His portraits are well done by nineteenth century standards; but the simplicity of his genre scenes, shows a kinship with seventeenth century French genre paintings and the quality of light and clarity of form in his landscape and cityscapes betray his understanding of Dutch and Venetian painting. Charles Henry Turner died in Boston on November 24, 1908.

Price: 550 USD

Location: Dubuque, Iowa

End Time: 2024-12-22T18:17:36.000Z

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