Hubert Vos

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Self-portrait of Hubert Vos in 1922

Hubert Vos (February 15, 1855 – January 8, 1935) was a Dutch painter who was born Josephus Hubertus Vos in

Royal Academy between 1888 and 1891. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.[1]

Career

In 1877, he married Aline Watteau, family of the famous French rococopainter

Fogg Museum at Harvard.[4]

In addition to portraits and landscapes, Vos is known for his interior scenes and still-life paintings of

Chinese porcelains. The gifts from Empress Dowager Cixi are favorite objects of the still-life paintings. He died in New York City
in 1935.

The

Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Luxembourg Palace (Paris), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Capital Museum (Beijing), and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding works by Hubert Vos.[5][6] Vos was elected to The Lambs
theatrical club in 1895. Three of his portraits are displayed in the club collection in Manhattan.

Selected works
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References

  • Virginia Anderson, "'A Semi-Chinese Picture': Hubert Vos and the Empress Dowager of China," Proceedings and Other Publications (2012).
  • Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 2000, 150, 223-4.
  • Forbes, David W., "Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941", Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 220-223.
  • Luke SK Kwong, "No Shadows," History Today 50 (2000): 42-43.
  • Severson, Don R. Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 104-5.
  • Wood, Christopher, Victorian Painters, 3rd ed., revised, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995.

External links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Severson, 2002
  2. doi:10.1163/156853212x652004
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  3. ^ Anderson, Virginia, "A Semi-Chinese Picture:" Hubert Vos and the Empress Dowager of China
  4. ^ Fogg Museum,H. I. M., the Empress Dowager of China, Cixi
  5. ^ AskArt.com
  6. ^ Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
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