Arthur Quartley Sunset, Isle of Shoals Private Collection 30" x 26" Fine Art Giclee Canvas Print Reproduction (Unframed)
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Arthur Quartley Sunset, Isle of Shoals Private collection 30" x 26" Fine Art Giclee Canvas Print Reproduction (Unframed)
Arthur Quartley was an American painter. He was known for his marine seascapes.
Background
Arthur Quartley was born on May 24, 1839 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. His father, Frederick William Quartley, was an English engraver. His mother, Ann (Falkard) Quartley, the daughter of William and Mary (Duncan) Falkard. The family spent seven years in France and then returned to England where Arthur as a young boy was soprano soloist in the royal chapel, Windsor Castle. At the age of 12, Arthur's mother died and Frederick Quartley emigrated and settled at Peekskill, New York. Arthur, in the new environment, became an enthusiastic angler and huntsman but the father continued a rule begun in England that the boy must show him each Saturday evening two carefully finished drawings.
Career
While the senior Quartley was establishing himself as an American engraver, some of his best work appearing in the publications Picturesque America and Picturesque Europe, the son thus laid the foundations of his clever and highly competent draftsmanship. His youthful desire, however, was to have a lucrative business of his own, and he accordingly apprenticed himself to a New York sign-painter. Having learned his trade Quartley in 1862 set up for himself in Baltimore where he had relatives. Arthur at this time began to make pictures, mostly marines, of which he had a successful exhibition and sale at the photographic studio of Norval H. Busey. His health, meantime, had suffered from overwork and he sold his business in order to devote himself exclusively to his art.
Returning to New York about 1875, he opened a studio and soon won distinction. He painted summers at the Isle of Shoals, off the New Hampshire coast, where he was associated with Celia Thaxter and her group of literary and artistic workers. Quartley was achieving a reputation as the foremost American painter of seascapes when, after a protracted illness, he succumbed to a disease of the liver at his home, 52 South Washington Square, New York.
Quartley's technical method, which he seems to have acquired as a decorator, was based upon careful delineation of the principal objects of his picture, prior to laying in the background and accessories. He was represented in the National Academy's centennial exhibition by "North River Pier Head. " He died on May 19, 1886 in Manhattan, New York, United States.