Richard Clague

Richard Clague, Jr. (1821–1873) was an American landscape artist.

Richard Clague
Richard Clague Jnr, Self-portrait
Born11 May 1821
Paris, France
Died1873
North Carolina, US
NationalityFrench-American
EducationLeon D. Pomarède; Horace Vernet; Antoine Auguste Ernest Herbert; Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres; École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Known forPainter
StyleBayou School

Life and career

Richard Clague Jr was born on 11 May 1821 in Paris, France to Richard Clague Sr. and Justine de la Roche. His parents were descended from wealthy New Orleans families and kept an apartment in Paris, where Richard Jr was born. The family returned to Louisiana when Richard was very young. However, when his parents separated, Richard and his brothers, Charles and Eduoard, went to live in Paris with their mother.[1]

In 1836, along with his brother, Eduoard, Richard was sent to school in Geneva to study painting with Jean-Charles Ferdinand Humbert (1813-1881) where Richard developed a preference for landscape painting. Following his father's death in December, 1836, he received a substantial inheritance which allowed him to continue his studies. He and his brother returned to Paris and began studying with Leon D. Pomarède. Later, Richard studied with Horace Vernet, Antoine Auguste Ernest Herbert and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres who recommended him to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[2]

After completing his studies, he travelled to Morocco, Algiers and other destinations in the Middle East where he kept a sketchbook (now in the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana) and developed an interest in Oriental subject matter.[3]

Although he was largely trained in Europe, he settled in Louisiana, becoming part of the "Bayou School".[4] He regularly painted with William Buck, Marshall Smith and their contemporaries, who often chose to paint similar scenes. Clague's home on Bayou Street, near the Spanish Fort, was a popular retreat for artists.[5]

Clague opened a studio in New Orleans in 1862, influencing artists such as William Aiken Walker[6] and his pupil, William H. Buck.[7]

  • Farm in St.Tammany
    Farm in St.Tammany
  • Fisherman's Camp
    Fisherman's Camp
  • Portrait of a Twisted Tree
    Portrait of a Twisted Tree
  • Back of Algiers
    Back of Algiers

Books
  • Roulhac Toledano (1974), Richard Clague, 1821-1873, New Orleans Museum of Art
  • Ackerman, G.M., American Orientalists, ACR, 1994; especially p. 272

See also
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References
  1. Bonner, J.H. and Pennington, E.C. (eds), The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 21, [Art and Architecture], p. 265
  2. Bonner, J.H. and Pennington, E.C. (eds), The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 21, [Art and Architecture], pp 265-266; For details of his deceased father's estate, see Thomas H. Thorpe, Charles G. Gill, Louisiana Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court, [Law Reports], Volume 33, Louisiana, Supreme Court, West Publishing Company, 1839
  3. de Bachellé Seebold, H.B., Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees, Volume 1, Pelican Publishing, 1941, p. 23
  4. Pennington, E. C., Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting, 1800-1950, Pelican Publishing, 1991, p. 78 and p. 90
  5. Trovaioli, A.P. and Toledano, E., William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Pelican Publishing, 2008, pp 96-98
  6. Roulhac Toledano, Discovery: Richard Clague (Southern, 1821-1872)
  7. Wiesendanger, M. and Wiesendanger, M., Nineteenth Century Louisiana Painters and Paintings, Pelican Publishing, 1971, p. 20
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