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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
An extensive Cuban landscape, cattle watering at a pool in the foreground
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Roger King Fine Art, A - G:
| Henri Cleenewerck was born in Watou, Belgium and attended the academies in Poperinge and Iepe. He came to the United States and was working in Savannah, Georgia in 1860. Around 1865 he traveled to Cuba, painting views of the Canimar River, San Antonio de los Banos and exotic jungle paintings. His work was highly acclaimed and he became a celebrated artist in Cuba, but he left there at the start of the War for Independence in 1868.
Cleenewerck returned to the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen and traveling extensively across the country. He visited Colorado and San Francisco, making a number of sketches, and there is evidence to suggest that he may have painted around the San Francisco Bay region and the Northern California coast. Cleenewerck apparently returned to Europe, for at the Brussels Salon of 1878, he indicated his residence as Poperinge. However, in 1879 he returned to San Francisco, living for three years at the Chamerlain house on the corner of Stockton and Bush streets. In 1882 Cleenewerck exhibited at New York’s National Academy of Design; that summer he spent sketching in Colorado. From 1880 to 1900 he traveled regularly from America to Europe, participating in Salon exhibits in Brussels and Paris. He apparently also painted murals in the church of St. Hilaire, France, the restoration of which is mentioned in modern city correspondence. His painting style, always based in realism, later shows influences of Courbet, Corot, and the Barbizon School.
Cleenewerck died in Brussels in 1901, though his official residence was listed as New York. The town of Poperinge, Belgium held a retrospective of his works in 1995. |
Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Painter. Born in Watou (Poperinge), Belgium of French parents on Sept. 17, 1818. Cleenewerck studied art at the academies in Poperinge and Ypres. In 1846 he moved to Germany where he painted and exhibited before decamping to the U.S. Joining the Gold Rush, he headed for California. His earliest known California work entitled Indians Hunting Deer is dated 1854.
By 1860 he was in Savannah, GA where his work was highly praised by the local press. By 1865 he had traveled to Cuba where his landscapes of that area were in demand by prominent Cuban families. With the onset of the Ten Year War, he left Cuba in 1868. In that year he became an American citizen in NYC and returned to Europe. He returned to San Francisco in 1879 and was active there until 1883.
Using a style taken from the Flemish old masters, he painted landscapes of Yosemite, scenes of the San Francisco Bay area, Monterey Peninsula, Cuba, Europe and, during his last 18 years, still Iifes.
Cleenewerck died in Brussels on March 31, 1901.
Exh: Brussels, 1848; Antwerp Salon, 1849; Paris Salon, 1869; Salon de Bruxelles, 1872, 1878; Mechanics Inst. (SF), 1880-82; Calif. State Fair, 1880-81 (cash prize); NAD, 1882 (Yosemite Trail); SFAA, 1883 (solo); Mark Hopkins Art Inst., 1903; Alaska-Yukon Expo (Seattle), 1909; Poperinge, 1995 (retrospective). In: Santa Cruz City Museum; Monterey Custom House; Monterey History & Art Ass'n (Chinese Fishing Village, Monterey, 1880); Poperinge City Hall; Merghelynck Museum (Ypres); Society of Calif. Pioneers; Oakland Museum. Society of Calif. Pioneers; Ben; Kennedy Quarterly, May 1965. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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