John Peter Russell

(16 June 1858 -22 April 1930) was an Australian impressionist painter. John Peter Russell was born at the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, the eldest of four children of John Russell, a Scottish engineer, his wife Charlotte Elizabeth, nee Nicholl, from London. J. P. Russell was a nephew of Sir Peter Nicol Russell. After his father's death J. P. Russell enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, on 5 January 1881 and studied under Alphonse Legros for three years.Russell then went to Paris to study painting under Fernand Cormon. (His fellow students there included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Émile Bernard.) Russell was a man of means and having married a beautiful Italian, Mariana Antoinetta Matiocco, he settled at Belle Île off the coast of Brittany, where he established an artists' colony. He would have 11 children with Matiocco, of whom six survived. John Peter Russell: Vincent van Gogh, 1886, Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamRussell had met Vincent van Gogh in Paris and formed a friendship with him. Van Gogh spoke highly of Russell's work, and after his first summer in Arles in 1888 he sent twelve drawings of his paintings to Russell, to inform him about the progress of his work. Claude Monet often worked with Russell at Belle Île and influenced his style, though it has been said that Monet preferred some of Russell's Belle Île seascapes to his own.


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John Peter Russell Landscape oil


Landscape
Painting ID::  77413
Landscape
oil on canvas, 81.0 x 100.0 cm) by John Peter Russell (1858?C1930 cyf
   
   
     

John Peter Russell Loing at Moret oil


Loing at Moret
Painting ID::  77414
Loing at Moret
(1887, oil on canvas, 45.7 x 60.9 cm) by John Peter Russell (1858?C1930). cyf
   
   
     

John Peter Russell Mon ami Polite oil


Mon ami Polite
Painting ID::  77415
Mon ami Polite
oil on canvas, 54.6 x 65.4 cm) by John Peter Russell (1858?C1930 cyf
   
   
     

John Peter Russell Stormy Sky and Sea oil


Stormy Sky and Sea
Painting ID::  77416
Stormy Sky and Sea
oil on canvas, 32 x 40.2 cm) by John Peter Russell (1858?C1930). cyf
   
   
     

John Peter Russell Le Pere Polyte oil


Le Pere Polyte
Painting ID::  77417
Le Pere Polyte
oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.5 cm) by John Peter Russell (1858?C1930). cyf
   
   
     

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     John Peter Russell
     (16 June 1858 -22 April 1930) was an Australian impressionist painter. John Peter Russell was born at the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, the eldest of four children of John Russell, a Scottish engineer, his wife Charlotte Elizabeth, nee Nicholl, from London. J. P. Russell was a nephew of Sir Peter Nicol Russell. After his father's death J. P. Russell enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, on 5 January 1881 and studied under Alphonse Legros for three years.Russell then went to Paris to study painting under Fernand Cormon. (His fellow students there included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Émile Bernard.) Russell was a man of means and having married a beautiful Italian, Mariana Antoinetta Matiocco, he settled at Belle Île off the coast of Brittany, where he established an artists' colony. He would have 11 children with Matiocco, of whom six survived. John Peter Russell: Vincent van Gogh, 1886, Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamRussell had met Vincent van Gogh in Paris and formed a friendship with him. Van Gogh spoke highly of Russell's work, and after his first summer in Arles in 1888 he sent twelve drawings of his paintings to Russell, to inform him about the progress of his work. Claude Monet often worked with Russell at Belle Île and influenced his style, though it has been said that Monet preferred some of Russell's Belle Île seascapes to his own.

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