Daniel Charles Grose Explained

Daniel Charles Grose
Birth Name:Daniel Charles Grose
Birth Date:1832 3, df=y
Birth Place:Whitby, Yorkshire, England
Death Place:Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Nationality:English Canadian American
Field:Painter
Movement:Romanticism, Hudson River School

Daniel Charles Grose (1832 – 1900) was a prolific Canadian-American painter of the Hudson River School who was active between 1864 and 1900. Primarily known for his pastoral landscapes, on occasion he also created marine views. Somewhat at variance from these were his scenes of India, perhaps the most coveted during his lifetime. An inveterate traveller, he painted scenes across eastern Canada and throughout the United States, in addition to countries abroad.

Biography

Daniel Charles Grose was born in 1832 in Whitby, England. He was one of a half-dozen children born to Daniel Henderson and Sarah Rachel Grose.[1]

The Grose family were actors and performers who travelled throughout the north of England for most of the 1830s and 1840s. Truly a family affair, a London paper in 1843 described a theatre under the management of Mr [Daniel Henderson] Grose as appearing to "have a gross of little Groses, who constitute his company."[2]

After serving in the Merchant Navy in the early 1850s, Grose married his first wife, Louisa Askew, on June 8, 1856, at Chatham, Kent, England.[3] At the start of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Grose was employed as a professor in a military staff college. As a lieutenant in the Royal East India Engineer Corps,[4] he volunteered for active duty and served until the rebellion was suppressed.[5] [6]

He was living with his in-laws in England in 1861 but by 1865 he and his wife had moved to Toronto, Province of Canada where he seems to have described himself for the first time as an artist.[7] By 1868, Grose and Louisa had moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he lived extensively throughout the rest of his life. Louisa died in either 1875 or 1876.[4] While visiting his family in Canada in 1875, Grose married his second wife Molly or Mary Jane White.[8] This second marriage was not a happy one and after a couple of years they separated. Mary returned to her family in New Brunswick, but soon went back to New York where she died in 1881 of "exhaustion due to acute mania."[9]

On May 25, 1881, in Washington, D.C., Grose married Harriet Estella Smith (1863–1914), also an artist.[10] Between 1881 and 1884 Grose and Harriet took a trip around the world. They moved back to Brooklyn but continued travelling nearly until his death, leaving New York again in 1895 and not returning from Australia until 1898. Grose died in Alexandria, Virginia, at his mother-in-law's house (Mrs. H Dwight Smith) on February 24, 1900.[11] His funeral was held the next day in Washington at his former residence. His wife Harriet died in Brooklyn, New York on October 6, 1914.[12]

Painting career

Grose studied at the Royal Academy of Arts.[13] The earliest known Grose works are dated 1864 and 1865 and consist of a series of landscapes in the province of Quebec. These have been described as primitive oil paintings in the Romantic style.[14]

He sketched and painted in the northeastern United States,[15] including Maine, the Hudson River Valley, and Connecticut.[16] He also continued to work in adjacent Canadian provinces.[17] [18] Grose was active as a painter in the Rocky Mountains area from the 1860s to the 1880s.[19] Other American locations included Florida and the Grand Canyon.[13] Some of his works deriving from his travels to India were highly rated by contemporaries,[13] and his painting Lalla Rookh was particularly celebrated.[13] [20] Grose was evidently successful as most of his canvases were sold before he completed them.[13]

Grose was a member of the Brooklyn Art Association, where he exhibited in 1869 and 1875.[16] The majority of Grose's exeunt work depicts pastoral landscapes, or romantic scenes with ruins. He was also adept at marine views.[13] His style indicates an affinity to the second generation of the Hudson River School (ca. 1848–1900). The Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art lists two of his works, seasonal views of Wissahickon Creek in Pennsylvania, as examples of the Hudson school.[21]

Collections

Selected works

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1895:

Undated

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977. FamilySearch. 11 December 2014. Daniel Charles Grose . 2 April 1832.
  2. News: Provincial Theatricals. 17 September 1843. The Era. 5. London. 13 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210514165737/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77655730/provincial-theatricals-northallerton/. 14 May 2021. live. .
  3. Web site: Daniel Charles Grose. search.findmypast.co.uk. en. 2018-02-06.
  4. News: Grose. The Brooklyn Sunday Sun. 3 September 1876. 5. .
  5. News: Latest from Quebec. The Gazette. Montreal. 16 September 1885. 1. .
  6. News: First Man to Enter the Hindoo Capital. The Brooklyn Citizen. 29 May 1887. 2. .
  7. Book: Mitchell's Toronto City Directory, 1864-1865. 1865. 68.
  8. Web site: Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. archives.gnb.ca. 2018-02-06.
  9. Web site: Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. archives.gnb.ca. 2018-02-06.
  10. District of Columbia Marriage Records 15:326.
  11. Obituary of Grose, Daniel Charles. Washington Post. 24 February 1900. Page 3.
  12. News: Harriet E. Grose. The Standard Union. Brooklyn. 7 October 1914. 3. .
  13. News: Local Artists, What They Are Doing and Proposing to Do. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 21 February 1892. 18. .
  14. Book: Harper, J. Russell. J. Russell Harper. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada. University of Toronto Press. 1970. 0-8020-1630-8. 136–137.
  15. News: A New Artist–Daniel C. Grose. The Brooklyn Union. 12 December 1868. 1. .
  16. Book: Falk. Peter Hastings. Peter H. Falk. Who was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America. II. Soundview Press. Madison, Connecticut. 1999. 0-932087-55-8. 1386.
  17. News: D. C. Grose. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 20 August 1873. 3. .
  18. News: Fine Arts: Mr. D. C. Grose. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 22 August 1872. 3. .
  19. Book: Samuels. Peggy. Samuels. Harold. Samuels' Enyclopedia of Artists of the American West. Castle. 1985. 198.
  20. News: "Untitled". Times Union. Brooklyn. 10 March 1871. 2. .
  21. Web site: American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting. 13 May 2021. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. https://web.archive.org/web/20191218014918/https://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/americanscenery/checklist_2.htm. 18 December 2019. live.
  22. Web site: Valley of the Montmorency. McMaster Museum of Art. 14 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210514210233/https://emuseum.mcmaster.ca/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/People@384/1?t:state:flow=8d325b64-2f4e-4284-a042-bbea7f9e87ec. 14 May 2021. dead.
  23. Web site: Le Lac Beauport. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). 2020-07-07.
  24. Web site: Québec vu de Charlesbourg. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). 2020-07-07.
  25. Web site: Lac de Deux Montagnes, Daniel Charles Grose (1838-1900). Gevik.com. 30 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180630213916/http://www.gevik.com/historical/grose/lac-de-deux-montagnes.html. 30 June 2018. live.
  26. Web site: Paysage dans les Laurentides. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). 2020-07-07.
  27. Web site: Paysage dans les Laurentides. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). 2020-07-07.
  28. Web site: La Pêche à la nigogue . Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). 2020-07-07.
  29. Web site: 36: Daniel Charles Grose, American/Canadian, (1838-1900. LiveAuctioneers.com. 30 June 2018.
  30. Web site: Paysage des environs de Québec (?). Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). 2020-07-07.
  31. Web site: Grose, Daniel Charles; Oil on Canvas Painting, signed 1877, Mt Kathadin.. Prices4antiques.com. 30 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180630213931/https://www.prices4antiques.com/paintings/oil-on-canvas/Grose-Daniel-Charles-Oil-on-Canvas-signed-1877-Mt-Kathadin-D9964440.html. 30 June 2018. live.
  32. Web site: La Mauvaise Rivière, Saint-Raymond de Portneuf. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). 2020-07-07.
  33. Web site: La Rivière Sainte-Anne, Saint-Raymond de Portneuf). Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). 2020-07-07.
  34. Web site: Daniel Charles Grose, (1838-1890), "Fisherman in a Landscape", signed "D. C.. DK Antiques & Collectables . 2009-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090620214307/http://www.antiques.dk.com/detail.php/Paintings,%20Sculpture,%20Graphic%20Arts/Paintings/American/Landscapes/Other%20Paintings/Daniel%20Charles%20Grose/10511473 . 2009-06-20 . dead .
  35. Web site: A Romantic View of Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley California . 2009-01-17 . Brusce Sikora Antiques . https://web.archive.org/web/20110708101349/http://www.brucesikoraantiques.com/gallery/paintings-landscapes/Grose_Painting_I . 2011-07-08 . dead .
  36. Web site: A View in the White Mountains . Bruce Sikora Antiques. 2009-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110708101503/http://www.brucesikoraantiques.com/gallery/paintings-landscapes/Grose_Painting_II . 2011-07-08 . dead .
  37. Web site: A View in Maryland . Bruce Sikora Antiques. 2009-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110708101354/http://www.brucesikoraantiques.com/gallery/paintings-landscapes/Grose_Painting_III . 2011-07-08 . dead .
  38. Web site: A Winter Skating Scene . Bruce Sikora Antiques. 2009-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110708101538/http://www.brucesikoraantiques.com/gallery/paintings-landscapes/Grose_Painting_IV . 2011-07-08 . dead .
  39. Web site: Autumn on the Whissahickon . The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. 2009-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081201200011/http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/americanscenery/grose_autumn.htm . 2008-12-01 . dead .

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