Thomas Hovenden (December 28, 1840 - August 14, 1895), American artist, was born in Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Ireland. December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... Dunmanway (Dún Mánmhaí in Irish) is a small town (population approx 1500) in the south west of Ireland. ...

He was a pupil of the South Kensington Art Schools and those of the National Academy of Design, New York, whither he had removed in 1863. Subsequently he went to Paris and studied in the École des Beaux Arts under Cabanel, but passed most of his time with the American colony in Brittany, at Pont-Aven, where he painted many pictures of the peasantry. South Kensington is an area in West London - it straddles the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster. ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... École des Beaux Arts refers to several art schools in France. ... Alexandre Cabanel (September 28, 1823 _ January 23, 1889) was a painter born in United States. ... Traditional coat of arms This article is about the historical duchy and French province, as well as the cultural area of Brittany. ...

Returning to America in 1880, he became an academician in 1882, and attracted attention by an important canvas of "The Last Moments of John Brown" (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art). His "Breaking Home Ties," a picture of American farm life, was engraved with considerable popular success. 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... There is also the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), located in Manhattan. ...

Hovenden was mortally injured in a heroic effort to save a child from a railroad train in the station at Germantown, near Philadelphia, and died at Norristown, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of August 1895. Germantown was a town in Pennsylvania and is today primarily a neighborhood in Philadelphia, about 6 miles northwest from the center of the city. ... Norristown is a borough located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 31,282. ...

Among his principal works are:

• "News from the Conscript" (1877)
• "Loyalist Peasant Soldier of La Vendée" (1879)
• "A Breton Interior," "Image Seller" and "Jerusalem the Golden" (in the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

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