De Scott Evans

De Scott Evans (actually: David Scott Evans, born March 28, 1847 in Boston, † July 4, 1898 in the Atlantic Ocean on a voyage from New York to Paris) was an American painter, primarily as a genre and portrait painter worked. He received special attention in the late 20th century due to the attribution of numerous images in the American trompe l'oeil style, which he is said to have painted under several pseudonyms.

Life

David Scott Evans was born in 1847 as the fifth of six children of the country doctor David S. Evans and his wife, Nancy A. Evans (born in Davenport ). He received his first formal art training in 1864 in the studio of the painter Albert Beaugureau in Cincinnati. In the early years of his career Evans worked as a teacher, in 1872 he married Alice Josephine Burke from Ohio, with whom he later had two daughters, Mabel and Nancy. The couple also adopted a third daughter, Laura. In the same year he had a job as a teacher of art and music at Smithson College in Logansport, Indiana, and from 1873 to 1875 he headed the department of fine arts at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio.

1874 Evans moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he established a studio in order to devote himself to painting. He worked under his stage name De Scott Evans, whom he had first used in Alliance and was the first teacher of the future Impressionists Otto Bacher. His own training led Evans in 1877 to Paris, where he studied under the academic painter William Adolphe Bouguereau. After this training, he established himself as a portrait painter, in 1882 founding member of the Cleveland Academy of Art

Already since 1881 Evans presented regularly at the exhibitions of the National Academy of Design from 1887 he moved to New York City and joined the prestigious club in his time Salamagundi. In 1898, he traveled again to Paris to take an order, but did not reach his goal, as the French passenger steamer La Bourgogne on the 4th of July at the crossing rammed another ship and sank; De Scott Evans drowned together with his three daughters. His wife Alice was not on board.

Work

The work of De Scott Evans is described as average for a painter of his time who had arrived towards the American Civil War right after that at the height of their creative powers and gained modest fame as a genre and portrait painter. The work of many of these artists has come in the wake quickly forgotten and also the majority of the plants Evans was hardly noticed after his death. An exception to this is especially the painting Winter Evening at Lawnfield, which is a portrait of the President James A. Garfield family and was given shortly after his death in 1881 by his widow in order. This order is considered to be the greatest success Evans in Cleveland.

In general, De Scott Evans painted portraits of young ladies and he was best known for his costume prints. Inspired by a series of artists of the time such as Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase and Eastman Johnson Evans used a number of different styles for his paintings.

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Attribution of many trompe l'oeil works

Through the two American art historian William Gerdts and Russell Burke De Scott Evans a number of works in the American trompe l'oeil style were assigned in 1971 for the first time, he is said to have painted under various pseudonyms. They justified the assignment by the discovery of two nearly identical paintings depicting pears are shown suspended from a string and one with " De Scott Evans," the other was signed " Scott David " of those. More discoveries such pairs of images with hanging apples, signed " David Stanley " and " Scott David ", as well as a hanging on a wall ax, signed " D. Scott Evans "and" Stanley S. Evans, " presented further evidence dar. addition, there are several images with almonds or nuts behind a wall recess as" SS David "or" Stanley S. David " are signed. It is assumed that Evans undertook these cover-ups, as trompe l'oeil artists such as William Michael Harnett, John Haberle and John Frederick Peto enjoyed only a low status and therefore he wanted to protect its established name.

The assignments are now generally accepted, although evidence against this theory talk. Overall, the work group of trompe l'oeil now includes about 50 paintings with six variants of David - signature. For trompe l'oeil activities no evidence can be seen in Evans Vita and the images have quite different style properties that allow for the assumption that there may well have been several artists. The most serious evidence against the authorship of Evans is a painting titled Washington's Hatchet, where the name Stanley David is stamped on the original Stretcher - so it's quite possible that there has actually been a Stanley S. David, of whom, however, There are no known traces of life.

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