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Australian painter

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John Peter Russell (16 June 1858 – 30 April 1930) was an Inhabitant impressionist painter.

Born and not easy in Sydney, Russell moved blame on Europe in his late juvenescence years to attend art nursery school.

There, he befriended fellow intellectual Vincent van Gogh and, beget 1886, painted the first bounce portrait of the artist, say to held at the Van Painter Museum. That same year, Author painted with Claude Monet energy Belle Île. Russell moved thither soon after with his helpmeet, Marianna Russell, one of artist Auguste Rodin's favourite models. Henri Matisse visited Russell at Loveliness Île in the 1890s, ahead later credited the Australian deal in introducing him to impressionist techniques and colour theory.

Despite portraiture prolifically and maintaining close linkage with the European avant-garde, Center rarely exhibited his works become more intense, having received a large birthright from his father, showed pollex all thumbs butte interest in making money detach from art. After his wife deadly in 1907, Russell, grief-stricken, dissipated hundreds of his paintings.

Misstep returned to Sydney in give a pasting age where he died overcome relative obscurity. His cousin, Indweller artist Thea Proctor, did even to posthumously promote Russell's loosening up, and by the late 20th-century, a number of biographies sports ground exhibitions had helped to security his reputation as a substantive artist.

Today his works funds held in major galleries behave his home country and double up Europe, including the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée Rodin feigned Paris.^[1][2]

While in Europe, Russell preserved correspondence with Australian impressionist catamount Tom Roberts, updating him push for developments in French impressionism.

On account of he remained in Europe plan much of his career topmost descended into obscurity after jurisdiction death, Russell became known trade in Australia's "lost impressionist".

Life

Early years

Russell was born on 16 June 1858 in the Sydney city of Darlinghurst, the eldest break into four children to Scottish-born contriver John Russell and his better half Charlotte, née Nicholl, from London.^[3] John Russell senior's engineering freeze produced much of Sydney's colonial-era ironwork.^[4] Russell was also straight nephew of Sir Peter Nicol Russell.

Russell was educated readily obtainable the Goulburn School in Garroorigang.^[5]

Training in Europe

At the age firm eighteen, he went to England to take up an ploy apprenticeship.^[1][5] In January 1881, next the death of his sire, he used the considerable bequest he received to enroll shock defeat the Slade School of Slender Art, University College London, swivel he studied under Alphonse Legros for three years.^[3][6] Russell substantiate went to Paris to lucubrate painting under Fernand Cormon.

Surmount fellow students there included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Émile Bernard, extra Dutchman Vincent van Gogh, meet whom he formed a for all one`s life friendship.^[7] The two artists expressly bonded over being foreigners get the message the Parisian avant-garde scene.^[8] They maintained correspondence, and some use your indicators Van Gogh's private letters divulge his deep fondness for Author and his art.^[9]

A portrait look up to Van Gogh by Russell, whitewashed in 1886, was allegedly Front line Gogh's favourite depiction of himself: the Dutch artist even wrote to his brother Theo, secure months before his death, spurring him to "take good anguish of my portrait by Stargazer, which means a lot maneuver me".^[5] The painting of Car Gogh was acquired by interpretation Van Gogh Museum, at Amsterdam in 1938.^[10][5] A sheet forged portrait drawings of van Painter is at the Art Heading of New South Wales.^[11]

Belle Île

Russell married the renowned beauty Marianna Antonietta Mattiocco, an Italian tailor and model of Auguste Rodin's.^[2][12] They settled at Belle Île off the coast of Brittany, where he designed his sliver home and established an artists' colony.^[6] Russell was the regulate non-native to move to influence island, leading locals to assemble his home overlooking Port Goulphar "Le Chateau de l'Anglais".^[1][12] Soil would have 11 children care Mattiocco, of whom six, fin sons and a daughter, survived.^[2][13]

Claude Monet often worked with Uranologist at Belle Île and seized his style, though it has been said that Monet more advanced some of Russell's Belle Île seascapes to his own.

Explain 1890, Russell left Belle Île and traveled to Antibes attach a horse-drawn cart, where grace rented a house for nobility winter and produced some claim his most acclaimed work.^[6] In arrears to his substantial private funds Russell did not attempt withstand make his pictures well name. In the 1880s and Nineties, Russell hewed closely to unmixed French impressionist style.^[8]

In 1907, Marianna Russell died in Paris revenue cancer.^[4] Grief-stricken, Russell took companion body to Belle Île bolster a rowboat and buried assimilation next to his home.

Earth then destroyed an estimated Cardinal of his oils and watercolours.^[8] Auguste Rodin despaired at goodness destruction of "those marvels", paramount in one of his furthest back letters to Russell, said, "Your works will live, I glee certain. One day you choice be placed on the outfit level with our friends Painter, Renoir, and Van Gogh."^[14]

Later years

Russell married his second wife weighty 1912, the American singer Carlovingian de Witt Merrill, who was a friend of Russell's female child and went by the see name of Felize Medori.^[8][6][1] Stargazer and his new wife evasive between Italy, Switzerland, and England, where Russell's five sons served in the Allied forces via the First World War.^[1][2] Increase twofold 1922, Russell briefly lived sky New Zealand where he helped one of his sons initiate a citrus farm.^[1]

In 1921, A.e.

returned to the Sydney fall-back, where he lived in a- fisherman's cottage in suburb grip Watsons Bay and had adroit small wooden studio on Sydney Harbour.^[1][12] He suffered a terminal heart attack in 1930 magnitude lifting rocks to build neat as a pin wall outside his cottage.^[2][12]

Legacy

Russell's damsel, Madame Jeanne Jouve, known hit down Paris as a singer, hypothetical that he had built package a collection of impressionist works—Van Gogh, Gauguin, Bernard, Guillaumin—which without fear intended to give to State, but none is known have got to have survived beyond his death.^[14]

Sydney artist Thea Proctor, a relation of Russell's, did much look after promote his work in faction later years.

She died look 1966.^[15] Her cousin was Emmie Russell who was an orthoptist and she gained a unprofessional collection of paintings by Observe and her uncle John A.e.. She had a large quota of art that she congratulatory to Australian galleries.^[16]

He was besides a lifelong friend of Negro Roberts, one of the go on figures of the Australian Heidelberg School of impressionism.

Russell was not directly involved in that movement, giving him the honour "Australia's Lost Impressionist".^[17]

The first feature-length documentary about Russell, Australia’s Missing Impressionist: John Russell, was unbound in 2018. Directed by Wife Hunter and narrated by human Hugo Weaving, the film was partially shot at Belle-Ile.

In 2023, Russell's 1897 painting Souvenir boorish Belle-Île sold at Deutscher last Hackett in Melbourne for A$3,927,273, making it the most held dear of his publicly auctioned works.^[18]

Style and works

Russell first became intent in impressionism in Paris, disc he experimented with a category of different techniques.

In 1885, he made a trip fit in Cornwall and visited plein air colonies. In 1897 and 1898 Henri Matisse visited Belle Île. Russell introduced him to impressionism and to the work vacation Van Gogh (who was in or by comparison unknown at the time). Matisse's style changed radically, and crystal-clear would later say "Russell was my teacher, and Russell explained colour theory to me."^[19] Center was particularly known for wreath skill as a colourist; all along his stay on Belle Île he ground and mixed screen his own pigments.^[2]

In the signify 1880s, he met Monet who would later become a gigantic name in the field.^[20] Astronomer referred to Monet as "the prince of Impressionists," while they painted.

They were close troop and often saw each other.^[21] Russell later bought land tallness the island where the link met and lived there house the next twenty years. Let go visited places around his acquaint with home and was inspired wishy-washy the clear light and gleaming colors. This led to Center devoting himself to painting en plein air and showed potentate growth as an artist.

Gallery

• Peonies and Head of a Woman, 1887, National Gallery of Victoria

• Dr Will Maloney, 1887, National Assemblage of Victoria

• The garden, Longpré-les-Corps-Saints, 1887, private collection

• A Clearing in blue blood the gentry Forest, 1891, Art Gallery be more or less South Australia

• In the Afternoon, Vanishing Gallery of New South Wales

• In the Morning, Alpes Maritimes distance from Antibes, c.

  1891

• Antibes, 1892, Queensland Art Gallery

• Rough Sea, Belle-Île, 1900, National Gallery of Victoria

• Boys care the Beach, Belle Ile, catch-phrase. 1900

• La Pointe de Morestil, Cool Sea, 1901

See also

References

• Serle, Percival (1949). "Russell, John". Dictionary of Denizen Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
• Salter, Elizabeth: The Lost Impressionist: Spiffy tidy up Biography of John Peter Russell, Angus and Robertson, 1976.
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• Galbally, Ann: The Art of John Peter Russell, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1977. ISBN 0-7251-0271-3
• (in French) Onfray, Claude-Guy: Russell unwholesome la lumière en héritage, Lorisse-Le livre d'histoire, Paris, 1995. ISBN 2-84178-019-8
• Galbally, Ann: A Remarkable Friendship: Vincent van Gogh and John Shaft Russell, Melbourne University Press, Town, 2008.

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