Catalog record · 目録番号 134959
Child portrait 1
Catalog note / 解説
Thursday, 22 July 2010 An exceptionally rare work by Goseda Yoshimatsu(1855-1915)the first Japanese artist to practice the art of Western style painting. Born in Edo Japan as the second son of Goseda Horyu 1, he moved to Yokohama in 1864 and became a pupil of the British artist Charles Wirgman in the winter of 1866. He quickly absorbed the watercolour technique of painting portraits and genre scenes, and as Wirgman admitted in a Japanese newspaper report of February 1874, Yoshimatsu was a far more talented artist than his teacher. In 1876 he studied under Antonio Fontanesi at the Kobu Daigaku Bijutsu Gakko, and from 1878 he travelled with the Emperor Meiji in the Hokuriku district, painting…
Image record / 画像情報
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