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Martin Johnson Heade
American Hudson River School painter
born 1819 - died 1904
Also known as: Martin J. Heade.
Student of: Edward Hicks
(1780-1849), Thomas Hicks
(1823-1890).
HEADE, Martin Johnson, artist, born in Bucks county, Pa. He began his
career as a portrait-painter, studied in Italy, traveled in the west,
and then settled in Boston as a landscape-painter. This brought him into
relations with Rev. James C. Fletcher, who induced him to visit Brazil
with a view to preparing an illustrated work on hum-ruing-birds. The
difficulties then existing in properly chromo-lithographing his fine
designs caused the abandonment of the work, but the pictures were
purchased by Sir Morton Peto and taken to London. Mr. Heade has painted
many western and tropical scenes, also views on the Hudson and the
Massachusetts coast, which are characterized by rich effects of color
and light, and by poetic sentiment. His studio is in New York city.
Among his best-known works are "High Tide on the Marshes," " Nicaragua.,
.... Off the California Coast" (which was exhibited at the Centennial
exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876), and "South American Scene." He has
recently sent to exhibitions of the Academy "On the St. John's River,
Florida " (1885), and " Sunset, Florida" (1886).
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