Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow

American painter

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (father)

Relatives

Alice Mary Longfellow (sister)
Stephen Longfellow (grandfather)

Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845–1921) was an American artist in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York. He was the son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Biography

Ernest Longfellow was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised at Craigie House. He was the second of six children, including his younger sister Alice Mary Longfellow. Educated at Harvard College, he passed the winter of 1865 and '66 in Paris in work and study, and the summers of 1876 and '77 in Villiers-le-Bel under Couture.^[1] He married Harriet "Hattie" Spelman in 1868. An 1874 newspaper gossiped about him: "Ernest Longfellow, the son of the poet, is described as a slender, delicate young man, an artist of talent, great at ten-pins, and tip-top at gunning."^[2]

"His professional life has been spent in Boston, with frequent visits to Europe."^[1] In the 1870s he kept a studio on West Street.^[3] He exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1871 and 1875; the Williams & Everett gallery in Boston in 1875; the 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia;^[1] and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the St. Botolph Club in 1880.^[4]^[5] He belonged to the Boston Art Club.^[6] He moved to New York around the turn of the century.^[7]

He died in November 1921 at the Hotel Touraine in Boston. "The funeral was held from the Craigie House; ... services conducted by the Rev. Samuel A. Eliot."^[8] Longfellow bequeathed some 55 paintings from his collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, including works by Jacopo Bassano,^[9] John Constable,^[9] Thomas Couture,^[9] Luca Giordano,^[9] and others.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Clement and Hutton. 1879
^ New-Orleans Times; Date: 08-19-1874
^ Boston Directory. 1873
^ George Parsons Lathrop. Exhibition of Works by Living American Artists at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Opened November 9; To Close December 20, 1880). American Art Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Dec., 1880)
^ G. P. Lathrop. St. Botolph Club, Boston: First Exhibition (Opened May 19, Closed May 29). American Art Review, Vol. 1, No. 10 (Aug., 1880)
^ Lamb's biographical dictionary of the United States, Volume 5. James H. Lamb Co., 1903
^ Who's who in New England. 1909
^ Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow. American Art News, Vol. 20, No. 8 (Dec. 3, 1921), p. 6
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d MFA Boston collections. Retrieved 2010-08-11

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ernest Longfellow.

WorldCat. Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth 1845-1921
US National Park Service. Ernest Longfellow
Archives of American Art. Ernest Wadsworth and Harriet S. Wadsworth Longfellow sketchbooks, 1867-1903
Harvard College. The Longfellow Family in Italy. Photograph, 1869. Group portrait including Hattie and Ernest Longfellow.

Image gallery

Portrait of Charley Longfellow (left) and Erny Longfellow (right), 1849.
Portrait of Ernest Longfellow and Frederick Crowninshield
Interior of Temple of Rameses II at Abu-Simbel, by E. Longfellow (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Portrait of H.W. Longfellow by his son, Ernest, 1886
Longfellow's house in Cambridge, designed by Peabody & Stearns