On Septeember 11, 2023, Bruce Garver, the manager of this Memorial, composed the following first draft of a "bio" of Lewis Henry Meakin (1850-1917) and solicits suggestions for its improvement.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin was born on July 12, 1850, at Staffordshire, England, to Lewis Henry Meakin, Sr. (1824-1894) and Sarah Ann (Keates) Meakin (1827-1897). As a child, Lewis immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, with his parents and three siblings who are here briefly descirbed in the order of their birth:
ADD INFORMATION ABOUT EACH SIBLING.
(2) Allan George Meakin (1852–1929)
(3) Sarah Annie (Meakin) Jones (1853–1935)
(4) Elizabeth (Meakin) Miln (1860–1929)
* * * * *
At the age of thirteen, Lewis Henry Meakin moved with his parents and thee siblings to Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Lewis Henry Meakin's interest in art had already become evident at an early age. His parents were pottery makers from whom he first learned to mould, paint, and glaze pottery. Furthermore, he formally studied art under Thomas S. Noble at the McMicken School of Design at the University of Cincinnati.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin became one of Cincinnati's foremost landscape painters and worked in a decorative Impressionistic style with broken brushwork and natural colors. From 1882 to 1886, he studied at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany, before returning to the United States to accept a faculty position at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He traveled to Europe again in 1893 to study in France where he concentrated on "plein air" painting of scenic along the Normandy coastline, including areas that would in early June be designated as the Omaha and Utah Beach landing zones for the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France. While in France during the year1893, Lewis Henry Meakin was greatly influenced by British mpressionist, William Lamb Picknell and studied with French Impressionist, Alfred Sisley. Meakin returned 1894 to Cincinnati where hecontinued to teach art at its Art Academy where his tenured appointment continued through more than three decades of teaching and occasional trips abroad to paint new scenes and work with distinguished colleagues.His critically acclaimed landscape paintings sold well to art museums and private collectors and facilitated his co=founding of the Cincinnati Art Club an his election as its first president. Lewis Henry Meakin's brother, Allan George Meakin (1852–1929), was also a founding member.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin made his first trip to the Western American Frontier in 1910. There, his fine paintings of Western scenes led to his being elected president of the Society of Western Artists. Thereby Meakin also earned membership in the National Academy of Design and in the Cincinnati Municipal Art Society. In 1911, Lewis Henry Meakin was appointed to be the curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum where served in that position until his death on August 4, 1917, at the age of sixty-seven while undergoing a kidney operation. His body was interred several days later at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery in Section 118 but was reinterred a year later in Section 119, Lot 377.
* * * * *
Four of Lewis Henry Meakin's oil paintings are on permanent display at the University of Cincinnati Art Galleries; "Normandy Road" (1894), "Road and Orchard near Moret-Sur-Loing" (1895), "Far Tombola (a Colorado Sketch)", and "Three Landscapes".
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin was born on July 12, 1850, at Staffordshire, England, to Lewis Henry Meakin, Sr. (1824-1894) and Sarah Ann (Keates) Meakin (1827-1897). As a child, Lewis immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, with his parents and three siblings who are here briefly descirbed in the order of their birth:
ADD INFORMATION ABOUT EACH SIBLING.
(2) Allan George Meakin (1852–1929)
(3) Sarah Annie (Meakin) Jones (1853–1935)
(4) Elizabeth (Meakin) Miln (1860–1929)
* * * * *
At the age of thirteen, Lewis Henry Meakin moved with his parents and thee siblings to Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Lewis Henry Meakin's interest in art had already become evident at an early age. His parents were pottery makers from whom he first learned to mould, paint, and glaze pottery. Furthermore, he formally studied art under Thomas S. Noble at the McMicken School of Design at the University of Cincinnati.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin became one of Cincinnati's foremost landscape painters and worked in a decorative Impressionistic style with broken brushwork and natural colors. From 1882 to 1886, he studied at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany, before returning to the United States to accept a faculty position at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He traveled to Europe again in 1893 to study in France where he concentrated on "plein air" painting of scenic along the Normandy coastline, including areas that would in early June be designated as the Omaha and Utah Beach landing zones for the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France. While in France during the year1893, Lewis Henry Meakin was greatly influenced by British mpressionist, William Lamb Picknell and studied with French Impressionist, Alfred Sisley. Meakin returned 1894 to Cincinnati where hecontinued to teach art at its Art Academy where his tenured appointment continued through more than three decades of teaching and occasional trips abroad to paint new scenes and work with distinguished colleagues.His critically acclaimed landscape paintings sold well to art museums and private collectors and facilitated his co=founding of the Cincinnati Art Club an his election as its first president. Lewis Henry Meakin's brother, Allan George Meakin (1852–1929), was also a founding member.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin made his first trip to the Western American Frontier in 1910. There, his fine paintings of Western scenes led to his being elected president of the Society of Western Artists. Thereby Meakin also earned membership in the National Academy of Design and in the Cincinnati Municipal Art Society. In 1911, Lewis Henry Meakin was appointed to be the curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum where served in that position until his death on August 4, 1917, at the age of sixty-seven while undergoing a kidney operation. His body was interred several days later at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery in Section 118 but was reinterred a year later in Section 119, Lot 377.
* * * * *
Four of Lewis Henry Meakin's oil paintings are on permanent display at the University of Cincinnati Art Galleries; "Normandy Road" (1894), "Road and Orchard near Moret-Sur-Loing" (1895), "Far Tombola (a Colorado Sketch)", and "Three Landscapes".
On Septeember 11, 2023, Bruce Garver, the manager of this Memorial, composed the following first draft of a "bio" of Lewis Henry Meakin (1850-1917) and solicits suggestions for its improvement.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin was born on July 12, 1850, at Staffordshire, England, to Lewis Henry Meakin, Sr. (1824-1894) and Sarah Ann (Keates) Meakin (1827-1897). As a child, Lewis immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, with his parents and three siblings who are here briefly descirbed in the order of their birth:
ADD INFORMATION ABOUT EACH SIBLING.
(2) Allan George Meakin (1852–1929)
(3) Sarah Annie (Meakin) Jones (1853–1935)
(4) Elizabeth (Meakin) Miln (1860–1929)
* * * * *
At the age of thirteen, Lewis Henry Meakin moved with his parents and thee siblings to Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Lewis Henry Meakin's interest in art had already become evident at an early age. His parents were pottery makers from whom he first learned to mould, paint, and glaze pottery. Furthermore, he formally studied art under Thomas S. Noble at the McMicken School of Design at the University of Cincinnati.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin became one of Cincinnati's foremost landscape painters and worked in a decorative Impressionistic style with broken brushwork and natural colors. From 1882 to 1886, he studied at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany, before returning to the United States to accept a faculty position at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He traveled to Europe again in 1893 to study in France where he concentrated on "plein air" painting of scenic along the Normandy coastline, including areas that would in early June be designated as the Omaha and Utah Beach landing zones for the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France. While in France during the year1893, Lewis Henry Meakin was greatly influenced by British mpressionist, William Lamb Picknell and studied with French Impressionist, Alfred Sisley. Meakin returned 1894 to Cincinnati where hecontinued to teach art at its Art Academy where his tenured appointment continued through more than three decades of teaching and occasional trips abroad to paint new scenes and work with distinguished colleagues.His critically acclaimed landscape paintings sold well to art museums and private collectors and facilitated his co=founding of the Cincinnati Art Club an his election as its first president. Lewis Henry Meakin's brother, Allan George Meakin (1852–1929), was also a founding member.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin made his first trip to the Western American Frontier in 1910. There, his fine paintings of Western scenes led to his being elected president of the Society of Western Artists. Thereby Meakin also earned membership in the National Academy of Design and in the Cincinnati Municipal Art Society. In 1911, Lewis Henry Meakin was appointed to be the curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum where served in that position until his death on August 4, 1917, at the age of sixty-seven while undergoing a kidney operation. His body was interred several days later at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery in Section 118 but was reinterred a year later in Section 119, Lot 377.
* * * * *
Four of Lewis Henry Meakin's oil paintings are on permanent display at the University of Cincinnati Art Galleries; "Normandy Road" (1894), "Road and Orchard near Moret-Sur-Loing" (1895), "Far Tombola (a Colorado Sketch)", and "Three Landscapes".
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin was born on July 12, 1850, at Staffordshire, England, to Lewis Henry Meakin, Sr. (1824-1894) and Sarah Ann (Keates) Meakin (1827-1897). As a child, Lewis immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, with his parents and three siblings who are here briefly descirbed in the order of their birth:
ADD INFORMATION ABOUT EACH SIBLING.
(2) Allan George Meakin (1852–1929)
(3) Sarah Annie (Meakin) Jones (1853–1935)
(4) Elizabeth (Meakin) Miln (1860–1929)
* * * * *
At the age of thirteen, Lewis Henry Meakin moved with his parents and thee siblings to Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Lewis Henry Meakin's interest in art had already become evident at an early age. His parents were pottery makers from whom he first learned to mould, paint, and glaze pottery. Furthermore, he formally studied art under Thomas S. Noble at the McMicken School of Design at the University of Cincinnati.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin became one of Cincinnati's foremost landscape painters and worked in a decorative Impressionistic style with broken brushwork and natural colors. From 1882 to 1886, he studied at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany, before returning to the United States to accept a faculty position at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He traveled to Europe again in 1893 to study in France where he concentrated on "plein air" painting of scenic along the Normandy coastline, including areas that would in early June be designated as the Omaha and Utah Beach landing zones for the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France. While in France during the year1893, Lewis Henry Meakin was greatly influenced by British mpressionist, William Lamb Picknell and studied with French Impressionist, Alfred Sisley. Meakin returned 1894 to Cincinnati where hecontinued to teach art at its Art Academy where his tenured appointment continued through more than three decades of teaching and occasional trips abroad to paint new scenes and work with distinguished colleagues.His critically acclaimed landscape paintings sold well to art museums and private collectors and facilitated his co=founding of the Cincinnati Art Club an his election as its first president. Lewis Henry Meakin's brother, Allan George Meakin (1852–1929), was also a founding member.
* * * * *
Lewis Henry Meakin made his first trip to the Western American Frontier in 1910. There, his fine paintings of Western scenes led to his being elected president of the Society of Western Artists. Thereby Meakin also earned membership in the National Academy of Design and in the Cincinnati Municipal Art Society. In 1911, Lewis Henry Meakin was appointed to be the curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum where served in that position until his death on August 4, 1917, at the age of sixty-seven while undergoing a kidney operation. His body was interred several days later at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery in Section 118 but was reinterred a year later in Section 119, Lot 377.
* * * * *
Four of Lewis Henry Meakin's oil paintings are on permanent display at the University of Cincinnati Art Galleries; "Normandy Road" (1894), "Road and Orchard near Moret-Sur-Loing" (1895), "Far Tombola (a Colorado Sketch)", and "Three Landscapes".
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
