John O'Brien (marine artist)
John O'Brien (1831 – 1891) was a Canadian marine artist. He excelled at ship portraits combined with dramatic storm scenes.
Career
John Daniel O’Connell O'Brien (named for the Irish “Liberator,” Daniel O’Connell) is believed to have been born in Saint John, New Brunswick but his parents moved to Halifax when he was a baby.[1][2] He emerged as a self-taught artist in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1850 and advertised himself as a professional in 1853.[2] In 1857, he studied in England with the English landscape artist John W. Carmichael and returned to Halifax the following year, having learned to colour photographs as well as to paint stormy skies. His career flourished as Nova Scotia's shipping industry grew and his many notable paintings include a portrait of the famous clipper Stag and dramatic storm portraits of the warship HMS Galatea. At the height of his career in 1859, he suffered a partial loss of vision. His career suffered in the 1870s, when he produced very few works, but revived in the 1880s.
References
- ^ Laurette, Patrick Condon. "John O`Brien". www.biographi.ca. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12, University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- ^ a b Reid, Dennis (2012). A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Third ed.). Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press. p. 25. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
Bibliography
- John O'Brien (1831-1891), by Patrick Condon Laurette, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, (1984)
- "Ship Portraits Sail into View", The Beaver, March 21–27, 2008
External links
Media related to John O'Brien (marine artist) at Wikimedia Commons- Dan Conlin “Ominous Sky: The Stormy Career and Work of Marine Artist John O’Brien: 1831-1891”, Nashwaak Review, Vol. 22-23 (2010), 493-506.[permanent dead link]
- "O'Brien, John Daniel O'Connell" entry in Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- O'Brien at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
- O'Brien at the National Gallery of Canada
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