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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Fishing in Kentucky near Louisville, 1853
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Charleston Renaissance Gallery:
| Born in Waterford, Ireland, Robert Brammer was one of a number of
Europeans artists who ventured to America. Inspired by the new
territory and its possibilities, he chose to remain on these
shores. Knowledge of his precise whereabouts in this country is
scarce, but it is known through surviving works and written records
that he was in Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and New Orleans,
Louisiana. He was in Louisville around 1839 to 1841, and
collaborated with Augustus A. Von Smith. Brammer appears in New
Orleans in 1842, and is again listed with Smith. He remained in
New Orleans and is noted in city directories until his death in 1853.
Brammer
began as a portrait painter, though he began to concentrate on
landscape subjects, becoming one of the earliest painters to represent
the Southern regional landscape. He was known as an artist of
“rare attainments” and for his “blended hues,” as noted in local
journals of the time (Pennington, p. 66). His southern landscapes
are typically executed in warm earth tones and depict the lush marsh
and waterways with great detail and a refined technique.
Brammer
summered in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he died unexpectedly in
1853. His work received acclaim both during his lifetime and
posthumously. His paintings were described in an 1853 article in
the Daily Orleanian as: “the very embodiment of true poetry,
glowing with all of fervid genius…. He was the poetry of art: nature
had implanted in his soul an intense love of its boundless beauties,
and genius guided his hand and pencil to depict them in nature’s
colors, with such truth as imparted to the artist’s work a life like
beauty, only achieved, where poet and artist are combined….” (Black, p.
92.) VAL
Sources include:
Black, Patti Carr. Art in Mississippi 1720-1980. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
Mahe II, John A. and Roseanne McCaffrey, editors. Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 1718-1918. New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 1987.
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