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William Van De Velde Bonfield

William Van De Velde Bonfield (1834 - 1885) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  William Bonfield is known for Coastal marine and winter scene painting.

Son of the artist George Bonfield, William Van de Velde Bonfield was named after the Dutch marine painter Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707).  His father owned engravings after the Dutch artist's paintings and may have seen works by him in Joseph Bonaparte's collection at Point Breeze near Bordentown, New Jersey.

William worked mainly in New Jersey and in southeastern Pennsylvania.  He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1861 to 1869, in 1876, 1877, 1880, and 1885 and is known for his quaint winter scenes of figures sleighing, houses and barns, or other scenes including figures and buildings in the snow.

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Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • New York City
  • Outdoor Sporting Scenes, Field and Stream, Hunting
  • Snowscene, Winter Landscape
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • St. Augustine, Florida
Art Association
  • Artists Fund Society
  • St. Augustine Arts Club/Art Association
Chronology
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Marine Before 1900
  • Miniature Specialty
Artist Colony
  • St. Augustine Artist Colony

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