亨利·彼得斯·格雷

1819-1877 American

古典风格肖像风俗画家

亨利·彼得斯·格雷是一位美国肖像和风俗画家。他出生于纽约市，曾在纽约师从丹尼尔·亨廷顿学习，随后在罗马和佛罗伦萨深造。 他于1842年当选为国家设计学院院士，并于1870年接替亨廷顿担任院长，任职至1871年。 他晚年致力于肖像画创作。他深受意大利古代大师的影响，以柔和的色彩和古典倾向进行绘画。他的一幅著名画作是名为《我们旗帜的诞生》（1875年）的寓言构图作品。他在纽约市去世。 《希腊恋人》是格雷在意大利之旅后创作的，他在那里深受意大利文艺复兴艺术的影响。这幅画在当时广受好评，反映了十九世纪人们对古希腊罗马 antiquity 的迷恋。 The Pride of the Village was based on Washington Irving’s story of the same name and is about a beautiful and simple country girl, the proverbial "pride of the village," who fell in love with an army officer. When the officer is transferred to another post, he asks that she accompany him, however, her pure mind was so upset by this indecorous suggestion that she pined away, surrounded by her devoted family. The painting shows her in her decline, possibly “thinking of her faithless lover?—or were her thoughts wandering to that distant churchyard, into whose bosom she might soon be gathered?”