John Breck (1860 - 1899)
John Leslie Breck was active/lived in Massachusetts. John Breck is known for landscape, interiors, floral outdoor.
"Landscape"
Signed lower Right
Oil on Canvas, Relined
Painting Size: 16 1/2" x 23 1/2"
Frame Size: 27 1/2" x 33 1/2"
Created in 1880's
CONDITION
Relined
Biography from the Archives of askART
Biography photo for John Breck
John Leslie Breck was an early exponent of the "new painting", avant-garde style, of Impressionism. Born at sea on a clipper ship in the South Pacific, he had a father who was a captain in the U.S. Navy.
Breck grew up in the Boston area. He obtained his art training at the Munich Royal Academy, learning rapid brushstroke and dark Tonalism. Beginning in 1886, he studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, and soon became one of the original settlers of the important Impressionist art colony in Giverny, France.
John's brother, Edward Breck, wrote of John's experience in Giverny, in an article of March 8, 1895 in the "Boston Evening Transcript". He describes the summer of 1887, when John, Edward, their mother, as well as Theodore Robinson, Theodore Wendel, and Blair Bruce were the original American colony in Giverny. Curiously, Edward Breck's account of their discovery of Giverny does not mention Monet, and rather that the town was a 'chance' happening, based on the region's charms, although it is doubtful Breck was completely unaware of Monet when he went there.
However, of the many American painters who spent time at Giverny in 1887, Breck and Robinson "were the two who became closest to Monet" . . . For a time Breck must have appeared as Monet's most promising artistic heir among the Americans. (Gerdts 48-49). His "Garden of Giverny" is one of the first Impressionist flower garden paintings among the American artist.
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Private Collection from New Jersey
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Relined, Re stretched, Has Cracks