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Martin Johnson Heade

Martin Johnson Heade (1819 - 1904) was active/lived in New York, California, Florida / Brazil.  Martin Heade is known for Sea-landscape painting, hummingbirds, orchids.

An artist whose body of work ranges from Victorian floral still lifes, to tropical salt marshes to close examinations of flowers and hummingbirds, Martin Heade is one of the better-known and more widely-traveled American artists of the 19th Century.  He lived in various parts of the United States including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and St. Augustine, Florida, and he also traveled in Europe and extensively in South America where he visited Brazil, Nicaragua, Columbia, Pueto Rico and Jamaica..

Heade was born in rural Pennsylvania and began his career as a portrait painter, studying with Quaker painters Edward and Thomas Hicks.  His early landscapes were rather amateur Hudson-River-Style views, but became much more professional with landscape subjects by the 1850s.  He also became fascinated by hummingbirds, a subject some historians describe as an obsession.  From 1865 to 1875, he painted a limited number of elaborate table top still lifes,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 18117 characters.]  Artist bio

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