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Horace Bonham

Horace Bonham (1835 - 1892) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Horace Bonham is known for Painter-genre, narrative, portrait.

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Horace Bonham (1835-1892)

Horace Bonham was admitted to the Bar and worked as a newspaper editor and a congressional aide before he went to Europe in February 1869 to study painting. He visited the great museums, met artists and sketched scenes wherever he traveled.

He acquired a studio in Munich and studied there with an artist he identified in letters home as "Otto". This was the same period in which Gustave Courbet first visited Munich, a city that was rivaling Paris as a Mecca for artists. But it was much later than the visit to Germany of Eastman Johnson, the American painter whose work bears even more likeness to Bonhams painting than some others who painted "real life scenes of real life people."

Late in 1869 Bonham returned to his home in York, Pennsylvania determined to be a painter. He painted portraits of family members and created "genre" scenes, using the common folk who live   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5773 characters.]  Artist bio

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