American, 1845 - 1921
The landscape, genre, and portrait painter Lawrence Earle grew up in Grand Rapids, where he was instructed by Marius Hartung and was friendly with Hartung's pupil Frederick S. Church. After a brief trip to New York in 1866, he studied in Chicago with Walter Shirlaw. He continued his education in Europe, spending time in Munich under Ludwig Barth and Franz Wagner, and in Florence and Rome. Earle returned to the United States in 1881 and seems to have lived in Chicago and New York before settling in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1890. Even after this move, he retained a studio in Manhattan.
Earle executed murals in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building of Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and about 1902 he painted a series of lunettes depicting scenes from the history of Chicago in the Chicago National Bank Building. His New York dealer was William Macbeth, but apparently that relationship was ended in 1909, when Earle's wife died and he moved back to Grand Rapids, where he lived for the remaining years of his life.
JD
Earle executed murals in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building of Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and about 1902 he painted a series of lunettes depicting scenes from the history of Chicago in the Chicago National Bank Building. His New York dealer was William Macbeth, but apparently that relationship was ended in 1909, when Earle's wife died and he moved back to Grand Rapids, where he lived for the remaining years of his life.
JD
