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A ROMANTIC INTERLUDE by Julius Stewart (American 1855-1919) Godel & Co. Inc. N.Y.
Julius Stewart was a figure and genre painter from Philadelphia who spent almost his entire life in Paris. From the 1880s through the first decade of the 20th century, he ranked with John Singer Sargent "as one of the most popular expatriate American painters in Paris" (Falk). He painted the life he thoroughly enjoyed -Parisian high society.
Stewart's works are spirited and realistic, full of fashionable women, sumptuous fabrics and elegant drawing rooms. He was following a genre begun by his friend, Jean Beraud, but Stewart's more vivacious work was considered especially American.
Stewart was born in 1855, and his family settled in Paris when he was ten years old. His earliest painting is dated 1876. His father, William Stewart, was an outcast art collector, who specialized in works of the contemporary Spanish-Roman school, including Zamacois, Fortuny and de Madrazo. These artists had a great influence on Stewart. In the 1880s, he studied with Zamacois and de Madrazo, as well as with Jean Leon Gerome.
Stewart's first success was being chosen to exhibit at the Paris Salon in 1883. His reputation was firmly established with, "The Hunt Ball" (1885, Essex Club, Newark) and "The Hunt Supper" (1889, Buffalo Club, New York) was shown at the Paris Exposition.
At the same time that Stewart was painting high society scenes, he painted nudes out-of-doors, a subject more acceptable in France than in America in the 1890s. by 1905, he had a religious crisis and conversion, toning down his subject matter. At the beginning of World War I, he served in the Red Cross ambulance corps and suffered a nervous breakdown.
Stewart remained a bachelor, and died in 1919, having returned to the United States.
He also exhibited in Germany, receiving Gold Medals at Berlin in 1891 and 1895, and at Munich in 1897 and 1901. He became a 'Chevalier de l'ordre de Leopold' in 1895.
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