John Englehart or Joseph John Englehart (1867–1915), was an American

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who worked under a number of pseudonyms. Englehart was born on June 14, 1867, in

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, Illinois, and died on April 14, 1915, in

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, California.

Pseudonyms

John Englehart's numerous variant spellings and

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s include: *Joseph John Englehart, Joseph John Engelhart, J. Englehart, J. Engelhart, J. Englehardt, J. Engelhardt, and Emblhart. *C. N. Doughty, C. C. Foucks, C. Williams, C. L. Willis, W. L. Willis, J. Cole, J. Delane, J. Enright, J. Gran, J. Grant, J. Hart, J. Lang, J. L. Monahan, Wm. J. Schon, and Ed Shroder.

Career

Englehart documented America's Western landscape and frontier during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known for his landscape oil paintings of

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and the

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. The style of landscape paintings by Englehart never brought the critical acclaim given to his contemporary landscape painters, such as those of the

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, including

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and

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. However he was successful as an artist, and his works are included in the collections of several museums.

California

John Englehart's career started during the popular 'California landscape paintings' period of the latter 19th-century. From the late 1880s until the turn of the century he maintained a studio in

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on Clay Street. During those prosperous years he commuted to work from a residence across the

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in Oakland. He painted scenes of California, including various views of

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Pacific Northwest

;Tacoma In the late 1890s Englehart traveled and painted in the Pacific Northwest. He did many landscapes of the

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, Washington area during this period. ;Portland In 1902, after San Francisco's art patrons' taste had moved on to European art, he opened a studio in

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, Oregon. He spent a large part of his time there until 1904. He participated in the

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in 1905. In 1909, he was awarded a prize for a landscape painting in a New York exhibit.

San Francisco Bay area

By 1910 Englehart had returned to the Bay Area, where he resided in

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near Oakland, until his death on April 14, 1915.

Realism style

John Englehart's style was

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, focusing on being illustrative and descriptive. He did not emphasize an evocative or romantic style, such as Thomas Hill did, to paint "Not as it is, but as it ought to be." Englehart's landscape compositions had a goal to bring the viewer closer to an actual experience of 'being there.' For most of his paintings he avoided ''

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'', choosing the midday light over the 'romantic light' of sunrise and sunset. He also incorporated multiple viewpoints in his paintings to depict the scene.

Selected works

Museum collections

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. *Washington State Historical Society. Washington State Historical Society
/ref> *College of Notre Dame, in Belmont, California. *De Young Museum, on loan to the Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco. *Nevada Museum, Reno. *The historic Baldwin Saloon (large collection), The Dalles, Oregon.

Unrelated artists

Englehart used many pseudonyms, however there are other similarly named artists, including: *Josef Engelhart — European oil painter. *

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— poet. *Edna Palmer Engelhardt — oil painter. *Walter Albert Engelhardt — oil painter. *LeRoy Updyke (1876–1959) — copied Englehart in paintings for the tourist trade, University Of Washington painting instructor.

References

*Hughes, Edan ''Artists in California 1786-1940'' *Falk ''Who Was Who in American Art'' *Dawdy ''Artists of the American West'' *Taylor, Mrs. H. J. ''Yosemite Indians and Other Sketches'' (1936)

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Englehart, John 1867 births 1915 deaths American landscape painters American realist painters Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters Artists of the American West 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists