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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Charming the Birds
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from AskART:
| An expatriate painter, noted for figure painting of peasants as well as
Classical, Biblical scenes, mythology subjects, and still lifes,
William Babcock was born
in Boston, Massachusetts but lived most of his life in
France. In
1847, he became one of the first Americans to study with Thomas Couture
in Paris.
He then went to the village of Barbizon where, along with other American artists, he did
peasant genre paintings. He became good friends with Jean-Francois
Millet, a leading Barbizon painter, whose figure painting much influenced Babcock.
Babcock introduced William Morris Hunt to Millet, and, in turn, Hunt
became a strong exponent of the Barbizon School of painting in America.
Although
he continued to live in Paris and died in that city, Babcock had a good
market for his work in Boston. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has
a large collection of his works.
His painting has been described as having a "strong poetic strain" and
a "Venetian feeling for form, color and light, in a manner reflecting
Couture and Titian.
Sources include:
Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Art
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art |
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