Thomas Hovenden

paikka: Dunmanway

Syntynyt: 1840

kuolema: 1895

Elämäkerta:

Thomas Hovenden in 1884. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stoeckel in 1897. Accession Number 97.5 Mrs. Stoeckel was Mr. Battell's daughter. His Breaking Home Ties, a picture of American farm life, was engraved with considerable popular success.
In 1886, he was appointed Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, replacing Thomas Eakins who was dismissed due to his use of nude models. Among Hovenden's students were the sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder and the leader of the Ashcan School, Robert Henri.
Hovenden was killed at the age of 54, along with a ten-year-old girl, by a railroad locomotive at a crossing near his home in Plymouth Meeting. Newspaper accounts reported that his death was the result of a heroic effort to save the girl, while a coroner's inquest determined his death was an accident.
A Pennsylvania state historical marker in Plymouth Meeting interprets Abolition Hall and Hovenden. Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. He is buried across the street in the cemetery of the Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse.
The Last Moments of John Brown (1884), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Hovenden House, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. He lived here from his marriage in 1881 to his death in 1895.
Hovenden's studio, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.
Chloe and Sam (1882), Amon Carter Museum.
Breaking Home Ties (1890), Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I Know'd It Was Ripe (c.1885), Brooklyn Museum.

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