Romanticism and the Rise of the Art Academy (Week 7)

Question 1

Answer 1

Washington Allston, Dead Man Revived by Touching the Bones of the Prophet Elisha, 1811 - 1814

religious scene

sublime - dramatic

neoclassical idealization of bodies

Question 2

Answer 2

Washington Allston, Self Portrait, 1805

moody, reflective

romantic idea of self

no signs pointing to artist

emphasizing gentleman

Question 3

Answer 3

Washington Allston, Poor Author and Rich Bookseller, 1811

only known genre he painted

typology

satire on artist patron relationship

Question 4

Answer 4

Washington Allston, Beatrice, 1819

character from Dante

moody, mysterious

contemporary portraiture with historical precedence

Question 5

Answer 5

Washington Allston, Moonlit Landscape, 1819

no narrative

framing elements

mood, feeling

unidentifiable location

Question 6

Answer 6

Washington Allston, Elijah in the Desert, 1818

biblical narrative

vast American landscape

bleak, desolation

abandonment of Elijah

God saved by sending ravens

Question 7

Washington Allston

Answer 7

Harvard

Studied with Benjamin West, Abroad 1801 - 1808 & 1811 - 1818

mentor/friend to Samuel F.B. Morse

Romantic painter - emotion, sublime

Question 8

Samuel F.B. Morse

Answer 8

Boston studies with Allston

Allston introduces him to artists in London in 1811

Forms National Academy of Design in 1825, president until 1845

Stops painting in 1837 to work on telegraph

zero impact on American painting

champion of art education and rise of academy

Question 9

Answer 9

Samuel F.B. Morse, Marquis de Lafayette, 1826

Question 10

Answer 10

Samuel F.B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, 1831 - 1833

mission to educate and elevate Americans

all masterpieces from Louvre

artist trianing by copying works

Question 11

Answer 11

Samuel F.B. Morse, The Old House of Represenatives, 1822

wanted to be a big deal but wasnt

tiny details of conversations

Question 12

Answer 12

Samuel F.B. Morse, Susan Walker Morse (The Muse), 1836 - 37

daughter

before marriage portrait

high style, romantic, classical

Question 13

Answer 13

Samuel F.B. Morse, Niagara Falls from Table Rock, 1835

doesnt conceive space

bad compared to Church

Question 14

Thomas Sully

Answer 14

Born in England

studies with Benjamin West

Philadelphia in 1810 to become predominant portraitist

Question 15

Answer 15

Thomas Sully, Mrs. Anna Klapp, 1814

Question 16

Answer 16

Thomas Sully, Queen Victoria, 1838

Sons of St. George society commission

first American portrait of the new queen

Sully sues bc doesn’t want to give up artists rights to the image

Question 17

Royal Academy

Answer 17

Founded by Joshua Reynolds in 1768

Question 18

Columbianum Academy (Philadelphia)

Answer 18

1794, Charles Willson Peale

begining of the rise of the academies

Question 19

American Academy of Fine Arts

place for artists to exhibit work, meet, and instruct

less emphasis on going to Europe to train

Answer 19

1802, John Trumbull