Background
Charles Henry Miller was born on March 20, 1842, in New York. He was a descendant of Fernandus de Muldor, who came to New Amsterdam from Holland in 1664. His parents were Jacob and Jane (Taylor) Miller.
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Long Island, located just east of New York City, has been the home of many great artists over the past three centuries. Though most were not native to this place, few showed more devotion and love for the Island than the painter, Charles Henry Miller. Throughout his sixty year career, Miller made it his mission to promote Long Island to his many associates in the New York art world. It was his favorite place to be, whether sketching, painting, or writing prose. Respected for his artistic abilities, Charles Henry Miller served on many institutional boards during his career and was awarded major prizes for his paintings that depicted the region. Important for their artistic merit alone, Miller's paintings and sketches were praised for their ability to impart the rich history of Long Island in a manner available to a wide audience. Charles Henry Miller, N.A.: Painter of Long Island tells the life story of this great American painter, his successes and failures, and his devotion to his adopted home. In addition to a detailed biography, dozens of examples of his paintings and sketches are illustrated, as well as a number of period photographs showing Miller at work, at leisure, and with his family. The first major publication created on the artist, this book is a must for dealers, art historians, and all those interested in American art. *WINNER - 2012 Award for Excellence from the Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN).
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(Spectacular book from cover to cover, with essays by Henr...)
Spectacular book from cover to cover, with essays by Henry Miller, foreword by Lawrence Durrell, and those wonderfully imaginative paintings.
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Charles Henry Miller was born on March 20, 1842, in New York. He was a descendant of Fernandus de Muldor, who came to New Amsterdam from Holland in 1664. His parents were Jacob and Jane (Taylor) Miller.
Miller exhibited his first picture at the National Academy of Design when he was eighteen years of age, but it was not until some years later that he adopted painting as his profession. Meanwhile he attended the Mt. Washington Collegiate Institute and later the New York Homeopathic Medical College, graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1863.
Upon graduation, Miller made a voyage to Europe as ship's doctor on the Black Ball liner Harvest Queen which enabled him to pay brief visits to Paris, London, and Scotland. The impressions he received there strengthened his love of art, and on his return to New York he abandoned the medical profession. His earliest studies from nature were made on Long Island; Bayard Taylor called him "the artistic discoverer" of the island. In 1867, he went to Munich to take up the serious work of preparation for the career of a painter. He became a pupil of Adolf Lier, at the Bavarian Royal Academy, and later continued his studies in Vienna, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, and Paris. After three years abroad, he returned to New York. Miller's etchings, like his paintings, were Long Island motives. Five of his prints were in the Boston Art Museum exhibition of etchings in 1881, among them "Home, Sweet Home, " the birthplace of John Howard Payne. As the direct expression of a painter of great power, said S. R. Koehler, every one of his plates has some point of interest to the lover of art, though many of them are but hasty memoranda, jotted down rudely, reminding one of Jongkind. His paintings are warm in tone, rich in surface, and of handsome pattern, somewhat reminiscent of the Barbizon school. His Long Island subjects constitute a record of the changing aspect of nature in the suburbs of a metropolis. A typical example is "A Bouquet of Oaks, " given to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in 1907, by W. T. Evans. It was painted in 1883 at Stewart's Pond, near Jamaica, L. I, in the autumn. The region about Queens, where Miller found most of his motives, comprises Jamaica, Garden City, Mineola, Creedmoor; its rural character is a thing of the past; thus his "Oaks at Creedmoor" and his "Sunset at Queens" are not merely effective landscapes, but historic documents as well. Under the pen name of Carl De Muldor the artist published in 1885 a book entitled The Philosophy of Art in America. He wrote occasional essays in criticism and lectured. He died at his New York home in his eightieth year.
Miller is noted artist. He also was an academician in 1875; was president of the New York Art Club in 1879; member of the Society of American Artists, the Art Union, Municipal Art Society, New York Etching Club, Century, Lotos, and Republican clubs; and a welcome contributor to all the important exhibitions, including the Centennial, 1876, and two or three of the international expositions in Paris. In 1910, Miller founded the Queens Borough Allied Arts & Crafts Society. A New York City public school, Queens P. S. 33, was once named for him. In 1878, gold medal awarded by the Massachusetts Charitable Association. In 1885, gold medal at the World's Exposition in New Orleans.
(Spectacular book from cover to cover, with essays by Henr...)
(Long Island, located just east of New York City, has been...)
a member of the Society of American Artists, a member of the Art Union, a member of the Municipal Art Society, a member of the New York Etching Club, Century, Lotos, Republican clubs
Quotes from others about the person
The American poet Bayard Taylor called him, "The artistic discoverer of the little continent of Long Island. "
On October 3, 1900, Miller married Mrs. Elizabeth Dorothea Mosback.
