Edwin Deakin
Edwin Deakin was born in Sheffield, England, and at age 12 apprenticed in lacquering furniture; this would be his only formal art training. He eventually moved to San Francisco and opened a studio. Active with the San Francisco Art Association, he befriended many artists and made numerous painting trips throughout California, successfully exhibiting and selling paintings based on his extensive travel sketches.
Do you have to struggle to succeed?
When 33-year-old Deakin moved from Chicago to San Francisco in 1871, his older friend, Samuel Marsden Brookes, was already an established artist there. Here Deakin painted Brookes with a romanticized seriousness, set in a slightly ramshackle studio cluttered with half-finished canvases. The subject continues working uninterrupted on one of his signature fish paintings.
Gift of Mrs. Virginia Dakin
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