page_title: Manchester School of Painters
section_title: California
hierarchical_section_title: Manchester School of Painters / Facts about the principal members / John Herbert Evelyn Partington / California
caption_attribution_description: English: J. H. E. Partington: Ambrose Bierce (painting) Українська: Портрет американського літератора Амброза Бірса (1842 - 1913/14?) (полотно, олія); зберігається в художній колекції Гантінґтонської бібліотеки (Сан-Марино, Каліфорнія, США).
context_page_description: The Manchester School of Painters was formed by a number of disgruntled young vanguard painters in the 1870s. They were deeply influenced by the artist Joseph Knight, who was a successful painter, etcher and photographer. He was the founder member of the Manchester School of Painters. Knight painted how he desired and refused to conform to traditional Art School rules and this appealed to his young admirers. Twice weekly they would all meet up at Knight’s studio in York Place behind the Union Chapel in Oxford Road, Manchester to discuss new ways to develop their techniques.
  The group were very discontented with the old school of teaching and working. They decided they would work in a different way, experimenting with different tones and colours especially after a number of them spent four months working in the open air in Pont-Aven, Brittany. The place was vibrant and full to the brim with an eminent and cosmopolitan crowd of painters known as the Pont-Aven School and the group became influenced by all their different ways of working.
context_section_description: For health reasons Partington, his wife and seven children emigrated to Oakland, California. All seven children achieved success in careers connected with the arts: Blanche Partington, Richard Langtry Partington and Gertrude Partington Albright as artists, Phyllis Partington as an opera singer under the name Frances Peralta, and John Allan Partington as a theater manager.
  His son Richard Langtry Partington (1868–1929) helped him establish The Partington School of Illustrating, at 414 Pine Street, San Francisco. When the school was destroyed by fire in 1906 Richard became the curator of the Piedmont Art Gallery. Partington taught at the school for eight years. He died at his home in East Oakland, and was buried on 30 January 1899 at Mountain View Cemetery.
  He produced numerous prestigious portraits whilst living in California, including one of Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce who became well known for his The Devil's Dictionary, 1906, a volume of ironic definitions. He was awarded a gold medal at the California Midwinter Int’l expo, 1894.
caption: Ambrose Bierce
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