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ARTIST: Hubert Vos (New York, Belgium, Netherlands, 1855 - 1935) TITLE: Returning Home MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Some age toning. Framed under glass. ART SIZE: 26 x 20 inches / 66 x 50 cm FRAME SIZE: 32 x 27 inches / 81 x 68 cm SIGNATURE: lower right ATTENTION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 135006 US SHIPPING: $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Born in Maastricht, Holland, Hubert Vos was a portrait painter, known for idealized exotic subjects that included Orientals and aboriginal races including pre-Westernized Hawaiians. In Holland, he became a court painter, after studying and painting throughout Europe.He was the first westerner to paint a portrait of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi of China. He also did interiors and still lifes, many of them of Chinese porcelains.He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium and Corman in Paris and exhibited widely in Europe including Amsterdam, Paris and Munich. He came to the United States in 1892 as commissioner representing Holland at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.He created a touring gallery of portraits of exotic people, which he exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC and other venues across the country. Among his subjects were Hawaiians whom he painted when he first traveled to Hawaii in the late 1890s with his Hawaiian-born wife, Eleanor Coney Graham, whom he met on the mainland when she was accompanying the dethroned Queen Liliuokalani. Eleanor was from a royal family in Hilo.