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Thomas Chambers (1808, Whitby, Yorkshire - 1869, Whitby) was an English-born painter who spent most of his life in the United States. He is generally classified as a Primitivist, but has also been called the "First American Modern".
Since the 1940s, Thomas Chambers has been a publicly recognized artist, known primarily for his marine paintings and scenes of the Hudson River Valley. Although some of his work is known to be based on prints by W. H. Bartlett and others, Chambers's compositions are not imitations.
Born in England, Chambers worked in the United States as a prolific marine, landscape, and “fancy” painter between 1832 and about 1866. In the 1930s and 1940s, with the discovery of the Museum’s signed painting, Chambers emerged as a folk original, embraced posthumously by modern art enthusiasts as the “American Rousseau.”.
Obscure in his own lifetime, Thomas Chambers found fame in the twentieth century with the discovery of The “Constitution” and the “Guerriere,” a rare signed painting of his that unlocked the identity of the artist behind a singularly flamboyant group of mid-nineteenth-century American marine and landscape paintings. Chambers’s ...
The mysterious Thomas Chambers arrived in the United States from England in 1832, worked for three decades as a marine and landscape painter, and then disappeared after 1866, leaving behind a boldly expressive and puzzling body of work.
Thomas Chambers was born in London in 1808 and emigrated to the United States in 1832. A painter of both landscapes and marine scenes, Chambers did not confine his artistic subjects to views that he knew firsthand but made liberal use of both his imagination and popular engraved images.
Thomas Chambers American. ca. 1850s. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 736. An emigrant from England, Chambers became a prolific landscape and marine painter, often relying on print sources for inspiration.
Nov 8, 2013 · New Light on Thomas Chambers. Discovered in the late 1930s and identified by name in 1942, when the first signed painting (Fig. 1) emerged, the distinctive marine and landscape paintings of Thomas Chambers (1808–1869) inspired pioneering research by Nina Fletcher Little, who published the first facts about his life in 1948.1 Two views of ...
Thomas Chambers [English-born American Hudson River School Painter, ca.1808-1866] Guide to pictures of works by Thomas Chambers in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
Oct 1, 2009 · Since then T. Chambers has acquired the first name of Thomas, a slim biography and a working life that dated from 1834 to 1866. His exuberant paintings are admired by scholars and...
