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[[File:Ulysses S Grant.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, National Portrait Gallery]] | |||
'''Thomas Le Clear''' (1818-1882) was a prominent American painter known to Theosophists for his oil portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]. '''NOTE: no photograph of the HPB portrait is available.''' | |||
[[File:Ulysses S Grant.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant]] | |||
'''Thomas Le Clear''' ( | |||
== Personal life == | == Personal life == | ||
Thomas Le Clear was born in Oswego, New York, on March 17, 1818. | |||
He died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, on [[November 26]], 1882. | |||
== Artistic career == | == Artistic career == | ||
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== Additional resources == | == Additional resources == | ||
* [https://americangallery.wordpress.com/category/le-clear-thomas/ "Thomas Le Clear (1818 – | * [https://americangallery.wordpress.com/category/le-clear-thomas/ "Thomas Le Clear (1818 – 1882)"] at American Gallery website. Examples of his work. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
Revision as of 20:21, 14 September 2018
Thomas Le Clear (1818-1882) was a prominent American painter known to Theosophists for his oil portrait of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. NOTE: no photograph of the HPB portrait is available.
Personal life
Thomas Le Clear was born in Oswego, New York, on March 17, 1818.
He died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, on November 26, 1882.
Artistic career
Theosophical Society connection
Mr. Le Clear was acquainted with Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott in New York City. After Blavatsky created her "Portrait of the Yogi Tiravalla" phenomenally, Olcott wrote, "Le Clear, the Noted American portrait painter, declared it unique, distinctly an 'individual' in the technical sense; one that no living artist within his knowledge could have produced."[1] An article published in The Bombay Gazette reiterated:
Thomas LeClear, an eminent American painter, and William R. O’Donovan, an equally distinguished sculptor, affirmed in a London journal, that no living artist could, in their opinion, equal it in vigour, breadth, and uniqueness, while they were both unable to decide upon the nature of the colouring substance employed in the manner of its application.[2]
Portrait of Madame Blavatsky
Additional resources
- "Thomas Le Clear (1818 – 1882)" at American Gallery website. Examples of his work.
Notes
- ↑ Henry Steel Olcott, Old Diary Leaves First Series (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1974), 367-368.
- ↑ See "Theosophic Thaumaturgy--A Startling Story" at The Blavatsky Archives. Reprinted from The Bombay Gazette (March 31st, 1879), p.3.