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Swamp Scene Everett B. D. Fabrino Julio (1843-1879) 1876 Oil on canvas |
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| Louisiana
Swamp Scene Everett B. D. Fabrino Julio (1843-1879) 1876 Oil on canvas |
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| Everett B.
D. Fabrino Julia was born on the island of St. Helena,
the son of an Italian father and a Scottish mother.
Educated in Paris, Julio traveled to Boston when he was
seventeen years old and studied anatomy and composition
with William Rimmer and drawing at Lowell Institute. Due
to health problems, Julio traveled south to St. Louis,
Missouri in 1864. There he painted his most famous work, The
Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson at Chancellorsville. In
an attempt to sell the painting, he went to New Orleans. To further his art training, Julio spent a year in Paris studying under Leon Bonnat. In 1874 he returned to New Orleans and opened a short-lived art academy and gallery. After his failing health had been diagnosed as tuberculosis, he moved to Kingston, Georgia. His productive career ended with his death at the age of thirty-six. Working in the Louisiana landscape tradition established by Richard Clague, Julio painted Louisiana scenes of dark moody vistas and swamps. The lone egret amid the moss-draped cypress trees in Swamp Scene gives the impression of pristine nature undisturbed by humankind. The Louisiana State Museum has three examples of Julio portraits from the early 1870s, acquired through Dr. Isaac M. Cline. |