Martin Heade Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"Study Of An Orchid"
Title: Study Of An Orchid
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 28 x 22 in | Image Size: 24 x 18 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Martin Johnson Heade (originally “Heed”) was born in Pennsylvania on 11th August 1819. He was trained at a young age by the painter Edward Hicks (1780-1849) and may also have been instructed by Hicks’s younger cousin, Thomas, a portrait painter.
Heade’s earliest works were generally portraits painted in a stiff manner but he began to travel, settling in Rome for two years in the late 1830s. Heade made a second trip to Europe in 1848, from which time his work became increasingly sophisticated. He gradually concentrated less and less on portrait painting and moved increasingly to the painting of landscapes and still-lifes.
He continued to travel widely, never settling in any one place, and in the early 1860s he made the first of three trips to South America. While in Brazil in 1863, he began a series of small pictures entitled The Gems of Brazil, showing brightly-coloured hummingbirds in landscape settings. The project was not actually completed but Heade maintained his interest in the subject and began to paint a series of flowers and other subjects in natural settings.
Never fully accepted by the art establishment, Heade eventually settled in Florida in the 1880s, where he married for the first time. With the support of his unofficial patron, the wealthy railroad magnate Henry Morrison Flagler, he painted an increasing number of still- lifes featuring natural items from the Florida marshes, including the cut magnolia leaves and flowers which now have become his trademark.
Heade died in relative obscurity in 1904 and it was only with the revival of interest in American art in the 1940s that his reputation was restored.
