William Stanley Haseltine
William Stanley Haseltine | |
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Rome, Italy | |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University |
Known for | Painting, Draftsman |
Movement | Luminism (American art style) |
William Stanley Haseltine (June 11, 1835 – February 3, 1900) was an American
Early life and education
Born in Philadelphia to John Haseltine, a successful businessman, and Elizabeth Shinn Haseltine, an amateur landscape painter, Haseltine studied at the University of Pennsylvania and then at Harvard University, where he received a degree in 1854.
Career
He first exhibited his paintings the following year at the
In 1858 Haseltine returned to Philadelphia, and by late 1859 was installed in the
In 1864 Haseltine's wife died in childbirth. He spent some time training his nephew, Howard Russell Butler,[2] until he married Helen Marshall in 1866 and relocated to Europe. Initially the family considered settling in Paris, but in 1867 they moved to Rome, which would for most of Haseltine's subsequent years serve as his home and point of departure from which to produce views of the European landscape. While his paintings of Capri and Sicily would prove popular with visiting American tourists, Haseltine also traveled and drew in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, summering in Bavaria and the Tyrol in the 1880s and 1890s. In his later years he also returned periodically to the United States, making a final trip to the west in 1899.
Haseltine died of
William's daughter Mildred (Millie), also an artist, married the Roman Prince Ludovico Guardino Carlo Francesco Rospigliosi Pallavicini in Rome in 1904. Above the village of Centrale, hamlet of Zugliano, near Thiene (Vicenza), they built a manor house, named Villa Rospigliosi. After the legal separation Mildred was a benefactor of the country and contributed to the construction of the Cathedral of Thiene with generous donations. There she was also known as Princess Haseltine.[citation needed]
Gallery
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After a Shower -- Nahant, Massachusetts (1864) - Brooklyn Museum
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Castle Rocks at Nahant, Massachusetts (1865) in the collection at TheMariners' Museum
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Mt. Aetna from Taormina (1871) held at the Birmingham Museum of Art
See also
References
- ISBN 0-691-10291-0.
- ISBN 9781555950293.
- Haseltine biography, National Gallery of Art Archived 2008-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
- William Stanley Haseltine (1835-1900): Drawings of a Painter, by John Wilmerding
- Simpson, Marc, et al., Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992. ISBN 0-88401-071-6
External links
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