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Paul Peel

Paul Peel (1861 - 1892) was active/lived in Ontario, Pennsylvania / Canada, France.  Paul Peel is known for Interior, figure, genre and portrait painting.

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Paul Peel's work was very popular in both his lifetime and today. It is executed mainly in oil and employs genre, landscape, interiors, marine and portrait subjects. His conservative style reflects what was being taught in the French government academies at the time, but at the time of his death, Peel appeared to be changing his style toward impressionism.

Paul's father, John R. Peel was a marble cutter interested in the arts who came from England with his wife to London, Ontario, in 1856 and eventually opened a successful monument business in that city. At an early age, Paul, the youngest, showed a remarkable talent. His father, who also taught art at the Old Mechanics Institute and held classes at the back of his shop, encouraged him. For two years Paul also studied under an English painter, William Lees Judson, who had settled in London before becoming founder and first dean of the College of Fine Arts in Los Angeles. By 1877 Paul, then 17, had won prizes at the city's Wester   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3973 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Paul Peel


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
Art MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Interior Scenes
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Europe
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Teacher
  • Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant
  • Gustave Boulanger
  • Jean Leon Gerome
  • Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
  • Thomas Eakins
  • William Lees Judson
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • National Historic Person, Canadian Government Award
Chronology
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
  • Interior Scene Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, National Gallery
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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