Thomas Chambers (painter) - Wikipedia
WEBThomas Chambers (1808, Whitby, Yorkshire - 1869, Whitby) was an English-born painter who spent most of his life in the United States. He is generally classified as a Primitivist, but has also been called the "First American Modern".
Thomas Chambers - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBAn emigrant from England, Chambers became a prolific landscape and marine painter, often relying on print sources for inspiration. This scene—which he based on a lithograph by Jacques Milbert—is set in upstate New York on the shores of Lake George.
Thomas Chambers - National Gallery of Art
WEBThomas Chambers was born in London in 1808 and emigrated to the United States in 1832. A painter of both landscapes and marine scenes, Chambers did not confine his artistic subjects to views that he knew firsthand but made liberal use of both his imagination and popular engraved images.
Thomas Chambers - Smithsonian American Art Museum
WEBSince the 1940s, Thomas Chambers has been a publicly recognized artist, known primarily for his marine paintings and scenes of the Hudson River Valley. Although some of his work is known to be based on prints by W. H. Bartlett and others, Chambers's compositions are not imitations.
Thomas Chambers (1808–1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter ...
WEBObscure in his own lifetime, Thomas Chambers found fame in the twentieth century with the discovery of a rare signed painting of his that unlocked the identity of the artist behind a singularly flamboyant group of mid-nineteenth-century …
Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Marine and Landscape …
WEBThe mysterious Thomas Chambers arrived in the United States from England in 1832, worked for three decades as a marine and landscape painter, and then disappeared after 1866, leaving behind a boldly expressive and puzzling body of work.
Thomas Chambers : American marine and landscape painter, …
WEBAlthough his distinctive sea and landscapes appear in many American collections, little is known about this English-born painter, who arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and disappeared from record in the mid-1860s, leaving many paintings that later resurfaced in rural New York and Massachusetts.
Thomas Chambers (1808–1869): American Marine and Landscape …
WEBAlthough his distinctive sea and landscapes appear in many American collections, little is known about this English-born painter, who arrived in New Orleans in 1832 and …
American Seascapes - The New York Times
WEBOct 2, 2009 · The exuberant paintings of Thomas Chambers are admired by scholars and collectors of 19th-century American painting. But have there been any major Chambers exhibitions? Not one, at least not...
Thomas Chambers - Artvee
WEBThomas Chambers was an English-born painter who spent most of his life in the United States. He is generally classified as a Primitivist, but has also been called the "First American Modern". Most of his paintings were unsigned, which delayed his recognition.
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