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Henry Roderick Newman

An important American Pre-Raphaelite artist, Henry Roderick Newman specialized in watercolors of architectural and floral subjects.

He was born in Easton, New York, and in 1861 moved to New York City, where he became an active figure in the art scene. His metic-ulously brushed and vividly chromatic works led to his election in 1864 to the Association for the Advancement of Truth in Art, which embraced the ideas of John Ruskin.

In 1870 Newman departed for Paris, where he studied with Jean Leon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1871, when his training was curtailed by the Franco-Prussian War, Newman went to Venice, where he created finely wrought depictions of Venetian architecture.

He met Ruskin in 1879, and the two traveled together to several Italian cities in search of illus-trations for Ruskin's books. In 1883 Newman settled permanently in Florence, where his home and studio became a meeting place for such luminaries as the Brownings, Henry James, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Perhaps as early as 1885, but regularly from 1888 to 1891 and again in 1894, Newman wintered in Egypt, where the architecture provided new subjects for his paintings. In the late 1890S he also visited Japan.

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton

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