FRIENDS
& RELATIONS
Prints
by and of related artists
The
art world in general and the world of prints in particular
is small and it is therefore perhaps natural that many
of its practitioners should be connected. However,
quite a remarkable number of printmakers are not just
related through friendship and artistic aims but are
full blood relations or related by marriage. This catalogue
manifests some of these relationships. Wherever possible
an example of a print by each of the related artists
is included.
It
is a reflection of changing systems of art education
that the earlier related masters, apprenticed in either
the family, friend’s or colleague’s workshop
should show greater stylistic affinities than the late
19th century and early 20th century artists, trained
independently at different art schools; though stylistic
analogies do occur among friends attending the same
schools. Commensurately the modern period produces
a higher incidence of printmaking brothers-in-law married
to non-artistic sisters, and conversely husbands and
wives who are both practising printmakers. It is noticeable
in the earlier periods that women printmakers are exclusively
the sisters, daughters or nieces of male printmakers,
simply following a family tradition. It was only towards
the end of the 19th century, with the establishment
of art school education, that growing numbers of women
independently took up printmaking activities.
For
a wider scope, portraits of friends and members
of artists’ families are also included, and on
the assumption that artists who draw each other must
be friends? a number of portraits of artists. Where
the artist portrayed is also a printmaker, an example
of his or her graphic work is usually offered. Similarly,
there is a small group of proofs dedicated to artist
friends together with prints by the friends in question.
The
catalogue includes from the 16th & 17th century
in the Low Countries examples by such artistic dynasties
as the Collaerts and Sadelers; as well as de Bruyn,
father and son; the Wierix brothers; Goltzius and his
step-son Matham; the van de Passes father and daughter.
An impressive large scale woodcut by Christoffel Jegher
of Ruben’s Love Garden, made in close collaboration
with the artist, shows portraits of Rubens and his
wife Hélène Fourmont. This print is now
extremely rare outside of museum collections. There
are etchings by Rembrandt and his close friend with
whom in his young days he shared a studio, Jan Lievens;
also a portrait of Lievens drawn by van Dyck
for the Iconographia, etched by Vorsterman. Geertruyd
Roughman, sister of Rembrandt’s friend Rolandt
Roghman and niece of Roelant Savery, is represented.
Though Italy provides fewer related printmakers they
include such notable examples as the Ghisis, Giorgio
and Adamo and Adamo’s sister Diana; the Carracci
brothers, Agostino and Annibile and their cousin Lodovico;
the Tiepoli, father and sons; Canaletto and his nephew
Bellotto.
An
interesting group of prints from the Etching Revival
reflects the relationships of James McNeill Whistler.
An etching by his brother-in-law Seymour Haden was
made in the company of the French Barbizon artist Daubigny.
An etching by Whistler shows the children of his friend
and follower Mortimer Menpes; a drypoint by Menpes
portrays Whistler; an etching by fellow American Joseph
Pennell, also a close friend and follower, shows Whistler’s
principal London home, the White House in Tite Street,
Chelsea, built for him by the architect E.W. Godwin,
whose widow Whistler would marry. There are portraits
of Pennell by Whistler himself , by his American student
Levon West (to whom Pennell gave the etching tools
he had inherited from Whistler) and by the Czech artist
of the Austrian School, Emil Orlik. Orlik was a superb
portraitist, as is seen in his portraits of the etcher
and sculptor Max Klinger and the painter Leopold Graf
von Kalckreuth.
In
Paris, Berthe Morisot was married to Manet’s
brother; Camille Pissarro fathered Lucien and Rodo
and was the grandfather of Orovida, daughter of Lucien,
printmakers all. Utrillo was the son of Suzanne Valadon.
The catalogue includes a magnificent rare early proof
of one of Valadon’s drypoints.
The
early 20th century in Britain was particularly rich
in inter-relationships. Muirhead Bone and Francis Dodd
were brothers-on-law, as were Edmund Blampied and Saloman
van Abbé. Sir D. Y. Cameron and Katherine Cameron
were brother and sister; Paul and John Nash, brothers;
Edward Julius and Charles Detmold, twins. William Strang
was the father of brothers David and Ian; William Rothenstein
was the brother of Albert Rutherston and father of
artist Michael and Tate Gallery director Sir John.
A tender etching by William Rothenstein shows his wife
Alice dandling the infant future Sir John on her knee.
John Copley was married to Ethel Gabain; Eric Lumsden
to Mabel Royds; William Giles to Ada Schrimpton; Minna
Bolingbroke to Charles J. Watson. A. S. Hartrick married
Lily Blatherwick, the daughter of his mother’s
second husband.
A
dealer’s catalogue is necessarily restricted
by the availability of stock. Readers may enjoy the ‘relative’ challenge
of supplying omissions.
Published
1991
44 pages. 124 items described and illustrated in b/w
(UK Price: £7, International orders: £10)
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Artists
included in the catalogue:
- Abbé S.
van
- Archduke
Albert of Austria
- Archd.
Isabella of Austria
- Austin
R.S.
- Austin
F.G.
- Bahr
H.
- Beckmann
M.
- Beckmann-Tube
M.
- Bentley
A.
- Blampied
E.
- Blatherwick
L. (Mrs A.S. Hartrick )
- Bolingbroke
M. (Mrs C.J. Watson )
- Bone
M.
- Bruyn
A. de
- Bruyn
N. de
- Cameron
D.Y.
- Cameron
K.
- Canaletto
A.
- Carracci
A.
- Carrière
E.
- Carrière
Mlle M.
- Collaert
A.
- Collaert
H.
- Copley
J.
- Cotman
J.S.
- Cotman
M.E.
- Dance
G.
- Daniell
W.
- Delâtre
E.
- Desboutins
M.
- Detmold
C.
- Detmold
E.J.
- Dodd
F.
- Dyck
A. van
- Gabain
E. (Mrs J. Copley )
- Giles
W.
- Girtin
T.
- Goltzius
H.
- Griggs
F.L.
- Haden
F.S.
- Hardie
M.
- Hardy
T.
- Huygens
C.
- Israels
J.
- Israels
Mme A.
- Jacques
C.
- Jegher
C.
- Kainz
J.
- Kalckreuth
L. von
- Kasimir
L.
- Kasimir-Hoernes
T. (Mrs L. Kasimir )
- Lievens
J.
- Lumsden
E.S.
- Manet
E.
- Mme
Manet
- Mlle
J. Manet
- Matham
J.
- Menpes
M.
- Millet
J.F.
- Morisot
B.
- Nash
J.
- Nash
P.
- Nicolson
J.
- Orlik
E.
- Orovida
- Osborne
M.
- Passe
C. van de
- Passe
M. van de
- Pennell
J.
- Pissarro
C.
- Pissarro
L.
- Pissaro
O.
- Pontius
P.
- Pott
C.M.
- Rembrandt
- Roghman
G.
- Rothenstein
W.
- Rothenstein
J.
- Royds
M.A. (Mrs E.S. Lumsden )
- Rubens
P.P.
- Sadeler
A.
- Sadeler
J.
- Sadeler
R.
- Saenredam
J.
- Schmutzer
F.
- Short
F.
- Shrimpton
A. (Mrs W.Giles )
- Smart
D.I.
- Sparks
N.
- Strang
I.
- Strang
W.
- Utrillo
M.
- Valadon
S. (Mme A. Utter)
- Vorsterman
L.
- Watson
C.J.
- West
L.
- Whistler
J.M.
- Wierix
A.
- Wierix
J.
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