Lot Essay
Percival De Luce was born in New York City in 1847 and died in 1914. He studied both at the Antwerp Academy and under Jospeh Portaels in Brussels. His work was present at all the principal exhibitions, especially in New York, with the major concentration being in the areas of portraits and genre paintings. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Artists' Fund Society.
De Luce exhibited at the Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition (no.240) at the National Academy of Design, New York City, in 1889 and at the Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition (no.75) at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in 1892. His works are recorded in the National Academy Notes and Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 1889 by Charles M. Kurtz on pages 100 and 120; in "A Plea for Simplicity of Subject" in The Illustrator by Clarence Cook (1st quarter of 1895) on page 183; and in "Percival De Luce and his Heritage" in The Northeast Missouri Teachers College Studies by Oliver S. De Luce (June 1, 1948) on page 105.
De Luce exhibited at the Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition (no.240) at the National Academy of Design, New York City, in 1889 and at the Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition (no.75) at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in 1892. His works are recorded in the National Academy Notes and Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 1889 by Charles M. Kurtz on pages 100 and 120; in "A Plea for Simplicity of Subject" in The Illustrator by Clarence Cook (1st quarter of 1895) on page 183; and in "Percival De Luce and his Heritage" in The Northeast Missouri Teachers College Studies by Oliver S. De Luce (June 1, 1948) on page 105.