Title : Child portrait 1

Artist : Yoshimatsu Goseda

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Source : Japanese Art Open Database
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Description : Thursday, 22 July 2010 An exceptionally rare work by Goseda Yoshimatsu(1855-1915)the first Japanese artist to practice the art of Western style painting. Born in Edo Japan as the second son of Goseda Horyu 1, he moved to Yokohama in 1864 and became a pupil of the British artist Charles Wirgman in the winter of 1866. He quickly absorbed the watercolour technique of painting portraits and genre scenes, and as Wirgman admitted in a Japanese newspaper report of February 1874, Yoshimatsu was a far more talented artist than his teacher. In 1876 he studied under Antonio Fontanesi at the Kobu Daigaku Bijutsu Gakko, and from 1878 he travelled with the Emperor Meiji in the Hokuriku district, painting famous places along the way. From 1880 to 1887 he was in France studying with Leon Bonnat, and was the first Japanese artist to exhibit at the Paris Salon du Printemps in April 1881. He travelled to Jersey C.I.,England and the United States before returning to Yokohama where he exhibited in the first Meiji Fine Arts Society in October 1889. His creative activity declined after 1900 due to poor health. Examples of his work from the late 1860s to the early 1870s can be found at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Yokohama, Japan. Reference: 1. Japanese Exchanges in Art 1850s-1930s with Britain,continental Europe and the U.S.A by John Clark. 2. Kanagawa Kenritsu Hakubutsukan,hen,'Meiji no yutei gaka- Goseda Yoshimatsu, Yokohama,Kanagawa Kenritsu Hakubutsukan,1986.

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