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Born and trained in the British Colonies, the painter Ralph Earl fled to England in 1778 because he supported the King of England during the Revolutionary War. After his return to the newly independent United States in 1785, he took advantage of the market for portraits of war heroes. During the 1790s Ralph Earl traveled throughout Connecticut painting portraits of prominent residents in each successive township. In his portraits, Earl went beyond the "likeness" of his handsome contemporaries to display keen insight into their characters; his paintings show people in their own homes, surrounded by their furniture, pursuing their customary occupations. Behind his subjects appear glimpses of identifiable scenes such as the countryside, seashore, river valleys and villages. Earl opted for rapid execution over lengthy sittings, using bold colors and brushwork. By this time full-length portraits were no longer in style in more fashionable locales such as New York, but they remained popular in Connecticut until the end of the century. Of the many military portraits Earl executed in America, eight are members of the veterans group the Society of the Cincinnati, including Captain John Pratt (1792, 1990.146.1).
Adapted from
- Ken Kelsey, Gail Davitt, Mary Ann Allday, Troy Smythe, and Barbara Barrett, "Art of the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art," Teaching packet (Dallas Museum of Art), 1994.
- Eleanor Jones Harvey, "Ralph Earl, Captain John Pratt," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, ed. Charles Venable (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1997), 219.
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Completed 12/19/2016-I added geographies and life dates in TMS for this artist. Received an error message while entering his work dates in NYC and left incomplete. Need to finish with the following:
Worked in: NYC, (1786- at least 1788), Earl was imprisoned in September 1786 and released January 1788.
Death location: Bolton, CT (1801)
I removed the TMS tags 1990.146.1 and 1990.146.2
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Update March 7, 2017- I am removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for review.
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The Society of the Cincinnati~Check out the Society of the Cincinnati's website to read about the group's history and continuing activities.
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General Description
Born and trained in the British Colonies, the painter Ralph Earl fled to England in 1778 because he supported the King of England during the Revolutionary War. After his return to the newly independent United States in 1785, he took advantage of the market for portraits of war heroes. During the 1790s Ralph Earl traveled throughout Connecticut painting portraits of prominent residents in each successive township. In his portraits, Earl went beyond the "likeness" of his handsome contemporaries to display keen insight into their characters; his paintings show people in their own homes, surrounded by their furniture, pursuing their customary occupations. Behind his subjects appear glimpses of identifiable scenes such as the countryside, seashore, river valleys and villages. Earl opted for rapid execution over lengthy sittings, using bold colors and brushwork. By this time full-length portraits were no longer in style in more fashionable locales such as New York, but they remained popular in Connecticut until the end of the century. Of the many military portraits Earl executed in America, eight are members of the veterans group the Society of the Cincinnati, including Captain John Pratt (1792, 1990.146.1).
Adapted from
- Ken Kelsey, Gail Davitt, Mary Ann Allday, Troy Smythe, and Barbara Barrett, "Art of the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art," Teaching packet (Dallas Museum of Art), 1994.
- Eleanor Jones Harvey, "Ralph Earl, Captain John Pratt," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, ed. Charles Venable (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1997), 219.
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The Society of the Cincinnati~Check out the Society of the Cincinnati's website to read about the group's history and continuing activities.
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Completed 12/19/2016-I added geographies and life dates in TMS for this artist. Received an error message while entering his work dates in NYC and left incomplete. Need to finish with the following:
Worked in: NYC, (1786- at least 1788), Earl was imprisoned in September 1786 and released January 1788.
Death location: Bolton, CT (1801)
I removed the TMS tags 1990.146.1 and 1990.146.2
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Update March 7, 2017- I am removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for review.
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