Artist

Frank Duveneck

born Covington, KY 1848-died Cincinnati, OH 1919
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Frank Duveneck, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001495
Also known as
  • Frank Decker
Born
Covington, Kentucky, United States
Died
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Active in
  • Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
  • Munich, Germany
  • Paris, France
  • Florence, Italy
  • Venice, Italy
Biography

Kentucky-born painter and teacher. He studied at the Munich Academy and developed a loose, broad painting style in the manner of Hals and Rembrandt. Whistling Boy (1872) is a signature work.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)

Works by this artist (5 items)

Frank Duveneck, Water Carriers, Venice, 1884, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Reverend F. Ward Denys, 1943.11.1
Water Carriers, Venice
Date1884
oil on canvas
On view
Frank Duveneck, Head of an Old Man, ca. 1877-1879, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.44
Head of an Old Man
Dateca. 1877-1879
oil on canvas
On view
Frank Duveneck, Bridge of Sighs, Venice, 1885, etching on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1972.70
Bridge of Sighs, Venice
Date1885
etching on paper
Not on view
Frank Duveneck, Walter Shirlaw, ca. 1873, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Walter Shirlaw, 1913.11.5
Walter Shirlaw
Dateca. 1873
oil on canvas
Not on view

Exhibitions

An artwork image of a woman
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano 
October 8, 2021May 8, 2022
This exhibition brings to life the Venetian glass revival of the nineteenth century on the famed island of Murano and the artistic experimentation the city inspired for artists such as John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.