Herbert Gustave Schmalz

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Herbert Gustave Schmalz, known as Herbert Carmichael after 1918 (1 June 1856, Newcastle – 21 November 1935, London)[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5224927 Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1856–1935): Ninon, ninon, que fait tu de la vie?], Christie's. was an English painter. "Utterly hostile to impressionism", he was noted for his Christian art.{{cite magazine |author= |date=June 1912 |title=Reviews and Notices |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31970027009411&seq=131 |magazine=The International Studio |volume=46 |issue=184 |location=New York |pages=337–339 |via=Hathi Trust}}

Life

Schmalz was born at Ryton, North East England in 1856, the son of Margaret and Gustave Schmalz. His father was a merchant, and later Prussian consul in Newcastle upon Tyne, whilst his mother was the eldest daughter of painter James Wilson Carmichael.{{cite book |last=Hall |first=Marshall |date=2005 |title=The Artists of Northumbria |edition=Third |location=Bristol |publisher=Art Dictionaries |isbn=0953260992 |pages=70–71}}{{cite book |last=Villar |first=Diana |date=1995 |title=John Wilson Carmichael 1799–1868 |location=Portsmouth |publisher=Carmichael and Sweet |isbn=1898644055 |page=64}} He was educated at Durham School.{{cite magazine |date=December 1935 |title=Deaths |magazine=The Dunelmian |publisher=Durham School |page=113}}{{cite news |author= |date=29 March 1933 |title=Ryton Artist Creates Stir |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/888562878/ |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Evening Chronicle |issue=14770 |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}} He received a conventional education in painting, first at the South Kensington Art School and later at the Royal Academy of Arts, where he studied with Frank Dicksee, Stanhope Forbes and Arthur Hacker. He perfected his studies in Antwerp at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.{{cite news |author= |date=12 October 1889 |title=Christianæ ad leones |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/801777028/ |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |issue=6534 |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{acn|date=October 2024}}

After his return to London he made a name for himself as a history painter, with a style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and orientalism. In 1884 he successfully exhibited his painting Too Late at the Royal Academy. After a voyage to Jerusalem in 1890 he made a series of paintings with New Testament topics, with Return from Calvary (1891) one of the best known.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

After 1895 Schmalz increasingly painted portraits. In 1900 he held a big solo exhibition named "A Dream of Fair Women" in the Fine Art Society in Bond Street.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

Schmalz was friends with William Holman Hunt, Val Prinsep and Frederic Leighton. In October 1918, after Germany was defeated in World War I, he adopted his mother's maiden name.{{cite news |date=25 October 1918 |title=Legal Notices |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/33278229/ |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Times |edition=Late War |issue=41930 |location=London |page=14 |via=Newspapers.com}} On 30 April 1899, he married Edith Ellen Pullan at St Peter's Church, Pimlico.{{cite web |title=Westminster Church of England Parish Registers; |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2090925:61867 |url-access=subscription |location=London |publisher=City of Westminster Archives |page=217

|id=SPES/PR/2/15 |via=Ancestry.com}} He died in London on 21 November 1935.{{cite news |author= |date=22 November 1935 |title=Painter Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1039178449/ |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Washington Daily News |agency=United Press |location=Washington, D.C. |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}