Henry Hammond Ahl

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Henry Hammond Ahl, American. 1869-1953. Henry Hammond Ahl was a portraitist, muralist, and landscape painter whose many scenes of New England were reproduced commercially as calendars and cards, bringing him financial success by 1900. From 1911, Ahl did canvases and murals with religious themes and decorated numerous churches in Boston and Providence. However, Ahl's promising career as a muralist ended in 1915 when he fell from a scaffold, and from that time he focused on landscape painting. He showed early talent for drawing and by age 17 was a skilled oil painter. His reputation was assured by the time he was age 30. He studied at the Royal Academy of Munich with Alexander Wagner and Franz Von Stuck and in Paris with Jean Leon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and with Peter Paul Muller. In Europe, he exhibited with the Munich Royal Academy where he won a prize. Returning to the United States, he settled in Springfield, Massachusetts and married artist Eleanor Isabella Curtis. After another trip to Europe, he worked in Washington D.C. and earned a prestigious reputation as a portrait painter of prominent persons. Following a return to Europe, he opened a studio in New York City and painted more portraits and finally settled in Boston where in Newbury he bought a twenty-room mansion built in 1937. This place became his permanent home and studio. He was best known for his atmospheric woodland scenes in a Barbizon or Tonalist manner, but later in life adopted a brighter Impressionistic palette, of which this work is a wonderful example. Other works by Henry Hammond Ahl can be found in private and public collections including the Whistler Memorial Home in Lowell, Massachusetts, and in church murals in Boston and Providence. He was a member of the American Artists Professional League, the Copley Society, the Salmagundi Club, and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. A larger brightly colored landscape by Henry Hammond Ahl is also available. Please click on Springtime to view. On exhibit:"Apple Blossoms", Signed Ahl, lower left. Oil on board. 8" x 10"

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