Musée No:218.019 river living primarily as a portrait

living primarily as a portrait painter

He started with still lifes

geologist and museum curator and director

studying with Daniel Huntington

La Duchessa

Musée No:218.019 river living primarily as a portraitBirds and Flowers Artist: Watanabe Seitei Date: 1887 Watanabe Seitei (also Watanabe Shtei) 1851 1918 was a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style. Nihonga was a movement in the early 1900s with the aim of updating and developing a more modern Japanese style but in keeping with the traditional Japanese conventions and techniques. It emphasized the importance and beauty of the thousand year old traditional style whilst distinguishing it from the more