Eduardo Lefebvre Scovell (1864–1918) was a British artist. He is one of the Volcano School, a group of non-native artists who painted dramatic nocturnal scenes of Hawaii's erupting volcanoes. Following his education at

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and the

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, Scovell studied art in Paris. He then traveled extensively, including one year in Rome and Florence. Several years were spent in India, China and Japan. He visited Brazil and spent eight years in Hawaii where he specialized in volcano scenes. He was in San Francisco during the earthquake and fire of 1906 and then settled in Los Angeles. Scovell was a resident there until his death on 23 September 1918. Scovell's painting ''Kilauea'' is in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu.Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
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References

* Hughes, Edan, ''Artists in California 1786-1940'', Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002. * Severson, Don R., ''Finding Paradise, Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, 98.

External links

Eduardo Lefebvre Scovell in AskArt.com

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scovell, Eduardo Lefebvre 19th-century British painters British male painters 20th-century British painters People educated at Eton College 1864 births Volcano School painters British landscape artists 1918 deaths 19th-century British male artists 20th-century British male artists