- Hubert Vos
Hubert Vos was a Dutch painter who was born in
Maastricht in 1855. He studied at theAcadémie des Beaux Arts inBrussels and withFernand Cormon (1845-1924) in Paris. He exhibited widely inParis ,Amsterdam ,Brussels ,Dresden andMunich . From 1885 to 1892, he worked inEngland , where he exhibited at theRoyal Academy between 1888 and 1891. He was a member of theRoyal Society of British Artists .In 1898, He visited
Hawaii , where he painted the local people. In that same year, Vos traveled toKorea , where he completed at least three paintings in duplicate. In each case, he left one copy in Korea and kept one copy. The paintings are a life-sized portrait ofGojong , a portrait of Min Sang-ho (1870-1933) and a landscape of Seoul. The copies left in Korea hung in the Deoksugung Palace until they were destroyed by fire in 1904. In 1905, on his second and last trip around the world, Vos became the first western painter to paint a portrait ofChina ’sEmpress Dowager Tzu Hsi (1835-1908).In addition to portraits and landscapes, Vos is known for his interior scenes and still-life paintings of
Chinese porcelain s. He died inNew York City in 1935.The
Chicago History Museum , theFogg Art Museum (Harvard University ), theHonolulu Academy of Arts , theMetropolitan Museum of Art and theSmithsonian American Art Museum are among he public collections having paintings by Hubert Vos.elected works
References
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*Wood, Christopher, "Victorian Painters", 3rd ed., revised, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995.
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