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Portrait of Col. Charles Ranlett

Creator: Vesper Lincoln George
Offered by: Clarke Gallery

Description
Vesper Lincoln George (1865 - 1934)
Portrait of Col. Charles Ranlett
Signed and Dated 1909
Oil on Canvas
50 x 30 Inches
Born in Boston on 4 June 1865, Vesper George was trained at the Art Students League in New York (1888-89) then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1889-92), where his teachers were Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant, and Henri-Lucien Doucet. He revisited the Boston area during the spring and summer of 1890 when he painted East Gloucester, which is a rare early landscape characterized by broad areas of color, still executed in a tonalist technique. Helen M. Knowlton, the biographer and student of William Morris Hunt, reported in The Studio that summer on the thirty-some artists who were active in Cape Ann. William Lamb Picknell (1853-1897), who had painted in Brittany, was the leader of the artists' colony at Annisquam, which Lewis Henry Meakin (ca. 1850-1917) referred to as "a regular American Pont-Aven."
Vesper Lincoln George (1865 - 1934)
Portrait of Col. Charles Ranlett
Signed and Dated 1909
Oil on Canvas
50 x 30 Inches
Born in Boston on 4 June 1865, Vesper George was trained at the Art Students League in New York (1888-89) then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1889-92), where his teachers were Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant, and Henri-Lucien Doucet. He revisited the Boston area during the spring and summer of 1890 when he painted East Gloucester, which is a rare early landscape characterized by broad areas of color, still executed in a tonalist technique. Helen M. Knowlton, the biographer and student of William Morris Hunt, reported in The Studio that summer on the thirty-some artists who were active in Cape Ann. William Lamb Picknell (1853-1897), who had painted in Brittany, was the leader of the artists' colony at Annisquam, which Lewis Henry Meakin (ca. 1850-1917) referred to as "a regular American Pont-Aven."