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Name
  
John Swan

Role
  
Painter

Education
  
Royal Academy of Arts


John Macallan Swan

Died
  
February 14, 1910, England, United Kingdom

Artwork
  
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John Macallan Swan (December 9, 1846 - February 14, 1910) was an English painter and sculptor.

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Biography

Swan was born in Brentford, Middlesex on 9 December 1846. He received his art training first in England at the Worcester and Lambeth schools of art and the Royal Academy schools, and subsequently in Paris, in the studios of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Emmanuel Frémiet. He began to exhibit at the Academy in 1878. His picture The Prodigal Son, bought for the Chantrey collection in 1889 (and now in the Tate Britain), established his reputation as an artist.

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He was elected associate in the Royal Academy in 1894 and academician in 1905. He was appointed a member of the Dutch Water-Colour Society in 1885; and associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1896 and full member in 1899. He was awarded first class gold medals for painting and sculpture in the Paris Exhibition, 1900.

Work

A master of the oil, water-colour and pastel mediums, an accomplished painter and a skilful draughtsman, he ranks also as a sculptor of distinguished ability, having worked in nearly every material.  He has treated the human figure with notable power, but it is by his representations of the larger wild animals, mainly the felidae, that he chiefly established his reputation; in this branch of practice he has scarcely a rival.

Painting

His subjects in oil include animals, figures, and landscapes, and are distinguished by massive, simple treatment, and a strongly imaginative element. Noted examples include:

  • Ocelot and Fish
  • Tigers
  • Tigers Drinking
  • Ceylon Leopards
  • Lions
  • Lioness Defending Her Cubs
  • Polar Bear Swimming
  • Sculpture

    The modeling in his sculptured works is broad, flexible, and naturalistic. Here he has been compared with Antoine-Louis Barye. Noted examples include:

  • The Jaguar
  • Puma and Macaw
  • Wounded Leopard
  • Leopard Running
  • References

    John Macallan Swan Wikipedia


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