Paul Peel
Paul Peel | |
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École des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérôme; Académie Julian with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Henri Doucet and Jules Lefebvre | |
Spouse | Isaure Verdier (m. 1882) |
Paul Peel (7 November 1860 – 3 October 1892) was a
Career and life
Peel was born in London,
He moved to Paris in 1881, France where he studied at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Decoratifs, later enrolling in the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts. It was at the recommendation of Gérôme that he began sketching outdoors.[3]
He studied afterwards with
In 1882, he married Isaure Verdier. They had two children: a son (Robert Andre, in 1886) and a daughter (Emilie Marguerite, in 1888).[2]
Peel travelled widely in Canada and in Europe, exhibiting as a member of the
He contracted a lung infection and died in his sleep, in Paris, France, at the age of 31.[2]
His childhood home is one of the many attractions at the Fanshawe Pioneer Village in London, Ontario.
Major works
Listed chronologically:
- Devotion (1881)
- Listening to the Skylark (1884)
- Mother and Child (1888)
- The Young Botanist (1888–1890)
- A Venetian Bather 1889
- Portrait of Gloria Roberts (1889)
- After the Bath (1890)
- The Young Biologist (1891)
- The Little Shepherdess (1892)
- Robert Andre Peel (c. 1892)
- Bennett Jull (1889–1890)
Record sale prices
At the June 8, 2023, Cowley Abbott auction Artwork from an Important Private Collection - Part II, The Young Gleaner (1888), oil on canvas, 33 x 23.25 ins ( 83.8 x 59.1 cms ), Auction Estimate: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00, realized a price of $408,000.00.[7]
References
- ISBN 1-55407-290-5
- ^ a b c d e f MacDonald 1977, p. 1561-1566.
- ^ a b c Baker, Victoria. "Article". cowleyabbott.ca. Cowley Abbott Auction. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ^ "Works". cowleyabbott.ca. Cowley Abbott Auction, An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art - Part III December 6th 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Paul Peel". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "Article". cowleyabbott.ca. Cowley Abbott Auction. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
Bibliography
- Victoria Baker, Paul Peel: A Retrospective, 1860-1892 (London Regional Art Gallery: London ON, 1986) ISBN 0-920872-74-3
- Boyanoski, Christine (2015). "Figures in the Landscape en plein air". Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven. Ian M. Thom (ed.). Vancouver and London, Eng.: Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing. pp. 59ff. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- Bruce, Tobi; Cable, Patrick Shaw (2011). The French Connection: Canadian Painters at the Paris Salons 1880-1900. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- MacDonald, Colin (1977). A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (First ed.). Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publishing. Retrieved 10 August 2020.