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HOVENDEN, THOMAS (184o–1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOVENDEN, See also:THOMAS (184o–1895) , See also:American artist, was See also:born in Dunmanway, Co. See also:Cork, See also:Ireland, on the 28th of See also:December 184o. He was a See also:pupil of the See also:South See also:Kensington See also:Art See also:Schools and those of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design, New See also:York, whither he had removed in 1863. Subsequently he went to See also:Paris and studied in the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts under See also:Cabanel, but passed most of his See also:time with the American See also:colony in See also:Brittany, at See also:Pont-Aven, where he painted many pictures of the peasantry. Returning to See also:America in 188o, he became an academician in 1882, and attracted See also:attention by an important See also:canvas of " The Last Moments of See also:John See also:Brown " (now in the See also:Metropolitan Museum of Art). His " Breaking See also:Home Ties," a picture of American See also:farm See also:life, was engraved with considerable popular success. Hovenden was mortally injured in a heroic effort to See also:save a See also:child from a railroad See also:train in the station at See also:Germantown, near See also:Philadelphia, and died at See also:Norristown, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 14th of See also:August 1895. Among his See also:principal See also:works are:—" See also:News from the Conscript " (1877), " Loyalist See also:Peasant Soldier of La See also:Vendee " (1879). " A See also:Breton Interior," " See also:Image Seller " and " See also:Jerusalem the See also:Golden " (in the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

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