biografia di Thaddeus WELCH (1844-1919)

Birth place: La Porte, IN

Death place: Santa Barbara, CA

Addresses: Marin County, CA; Santa Barbara, CA (since 1905)

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: worked for a printer in Portland, OR, 1863; with Virgil Williams, San Francisco 1866; Royal Acad., Munich, 1874 (where he befriended Twachtman, Chase, and Duveneck); Paris, 1878-81, with Duveneck

Exhibited: Munich Academy, 1876 (bronze medal); Paris Salon, 1880, 1881; Boston AC, 1882

Member: Bohemian Club, San Francisco; San Francisco AA

Work: CPLH; Oakland Mus. Art; San Diego AG; Frye Mus., Seattle

Comments: Welch returned from Europe in 1881 and painted in the Hudson River Valley area. There he met his second wife, Ludmilla P. Welch (see entry), whom he married in 1883. He worked in NYC, Boston, and Philadelphia. He traveled to the Southwest, 1888-89; Australia in 1889; and finally settled in Calif. in 1892. There he found financial success painting bucolic scenes of Marin County. Some of his works were distributed as chromolithographs by Prang in Boston.

Sources: Hughes, Artists in California, 596; P&H Samuels, 518; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 404.