biografía de George Quincy THORNDIKE (1827-1886)

Lugar de nacimiento: Boston, MA

Lugar de defunción: Boston

Direcciones: NYC 1857-64, 1867; Newport, RI, 1865, 1868; Boston, 1885

Profesión: Landscape painter

Estudios: Harvard College, 1847; in Paris, 1847

Exposiciones: NAD, 1857-85; Brooklyn AA, 1862; PAFA, 1861-63; Boston Athenaeum, 1857

Asociaciones: ANA, 1861

Comentarios: An artist of apparently poor health, he studied in Paris and then remained in France for ten years. He shared a studio in the village of Dinard with painter John Lewis (his future brother-in-law). In 1857, Thorndike returned to NYC, and during the 1860s, he kept a studio at the Tenth Street Studio Bldg (NYC) and in Newport, RI where he painted Tonalist landscapes. Little is known about his 1868-86 period, except that by 1885 he was living in Boston.

Fuentes: G&W; CAB; Thieme-Becker; Clement and Hutton; Harvard University, Quinquennial Catalogue (1890); Cowdrey, NAD; Rutledge, PA; Swan, BA. More recently, see Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, 164; Robert Workman, The Eden of America (RISD, 1986, p.42)