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	== Portrait of Madame Blavatsky ==		== Portrait of Madame Blavatsky ==

			While the existence of the Blavatsky portrait is well documented, its current location is unknown.

	== Additional resources ==		== Additional resources ==

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	[[File:Ulysses S Grant.jpg\|right\|250px\|thumb\|Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, National Portrait Gallery]]		[[File:Ulysses S Grant.jpg\|right\|250px\|thumb\|Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant by Thomas Le Clear, National Portrait Gallery]]
	'''Thomas Le Clear''' (1818-1882) was a prominent American painter known to Theosophists for his oil portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]. '''NOTE: no photograph of the HPB portrait is available.'''		'''Thomas Le Clear''' (1818-1882) was a prominent American painter known to Theosophists for his oil portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]. '''NOTE: no photograph of the HPB portrait is available.'''

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	== Personal life ==		== Personal life ==

	Thomas Le Clear was born in Oswego, New York, on March 17, 1818.		Thomas Le Clear was born in Oswego, New York, on [[March 17]], 1818.

	He died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, on [[November 26]], 1882.		He died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, on [[November 26]], 1882.

	== Artistic career ==		== Artistic career ==

			According to the American Cyclopedia,

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			He began to follow art professionally before he had had any instruction, and his later advantages in that direction were confined to simple observation of the works of other artists. He went to London, Canada, with his father in 1832, and after painting portraits for a time there, and in Elmira and Rochester, he made his way to New York city and opened a studio in 1839. In 1844-60 he resided in Buffalo, but afterward returned to New York [City]. In 1863 he was elected a National academician. Among his compositions are “The Reprimand ”; “ Marble-Players ”; and “ Itinerants ” (1862). Of his numerous portraits, one of the best is that of George Bancroft, at the Century club, New York; other excellent portraits are those of William Cullen Bryant, Bayard Taylor, President Fillmore, and Edwin Booth as Hamlet.<ref>"Le Clear, Thomas" Americans' Cyclopediaof American Biography, 1600-1889, 651. Accessed on Ancestry.com.</ref>
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			Around 1880, Le Clear was commissioned to paint the portrait of '''Ulysses S. Grant''' shortly after the former president returned from a world tour. Two versions were painted. One was originally owned by Grant personally, and now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. The other is in the White House collection.<ref>"Ulysses S. Grant" in [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/ulysses-s-grant/7wGKGU0QxmJrnA Google Arts and Culture website].</ref>

	== Theosophical Society connection ==		== Theosophical Society connection ==

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	~~{{Template:Article needs expansion}}~~		[[File:Ulysses S Grant.jpg\|right\|250px\|thumb\|Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, National Portrait Gallery]]
	~~<br>~~		'''Thomas Le Clear''' (1818-1882) was a prominent American painter known to Theosophists for his oil portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]. '''NOTE: no photograph of the HPB portrait is available.'''
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	[[File:Ulysses S Grant.jpg\|right\|250px\|thumb\|Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant]]
	'''Thomas Le Clear''' (~~born in Owego, New York, 17 March~~ 1818~~; died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, 26 November~~ 1882) was a painter ~~from the United States.~~
	~~He painted~~ [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]~~'s portrait in oils~~. '''NOTE: no photograph of HPB portrait is available.'''

	== Personal life ==		== Personal life ==

			Thomas Le Clear was born in Oswego, New York, on March 17, 1818.

			He died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, on [[November 26]], 1882.

	== Artistic career ==		== Artistic career ==
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	== Additional resources ==		== Additional resources ==
	* [https://americangallery.wordpress.com/category/le-clear-thomas/ "Thomas Le Clear (1818 – ~~1862~~)"] at American Gallery website. Examples of his work.		* [https://americangallery.wordpress.com/category/le-clear-thomas/ "Thomas Le Clear (1818 – 1882)"] at American Gallery website. Examples of his work.

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

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	== Artistic career ==		== Artistic career ==

			== Theosophical Society connection ==

			Mr. Le Clear was acquainted with [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Madame Blavatsky]] and [[Henry Steel Olcott\|Colonel Olcott]] in New York City. After Blavatsky created her [[Portrait of the Yogi Tiravalla\|"Portrait of the Yogi Tiravalla"]] [[Phenomena\|phenomenally]], Olcott wrote, "Le Clear, the Noted American portrait painter, declared it unique, distinctly an 'individual' in the technical sense; one that no living artist within his knowledge could have produced."<ref>Henry Steel Olcott, ''Old Diary Leaves'' First Series (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1974), 367-368.</ref> An article published in ''The Bombay Gazette'' reiterated:

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			[[Thomas Le Clear\|Thomas LeClear]], an eminent American painter, and [[William R. O’Donovan]], an equally distinguished sculptor, affirmed in a London journal, that no living artist could, in their opinion, equal it in vigour, breadth, and uniqueness, while they were both unable to decide upon the nature of the colouring substance employed in the manner of its application.<ref>See [http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/massey11.htm "Theosophic Thaumaturgy--A Startling Story"] at The Blavatsky Archives. Reprinted from ''The Bombay Gazette'' (March 31st, 1879), p.3.</ref>
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	== Portrait of Madame Blavatsky ==		== Portrait of Madame Blavatsky ==

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			== Additional resources ==
			* [https://americangallery.wordpress.com/category/le-clear-thomas/ "Thomas Le Clear (1818 – 1862)"] at American Gallery website. Examples of his work.

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

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	'''Thomas Le Clear''' (born in Owego, New York, 17 March 1818; died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, 26 November 1882) was a painter from the United States.		'''Thomas Le Clear''' (born in Owego, New York, 17 March 1818; died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, 26 November 1882) was a painter from the United States.
			He painted [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]'s portrait in oils. '''NOTE: no photograph of HPB portrait is available.'''

	~~He painted [[Helena Petrovna~~ Blavatsky~~]]'s portrait in oils.~~		== Personal life ==

			== Artistic career ==

			== Portrait of Madame Blavatsky ==

			== Notes ==
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	[[Category:Associates of HPB\|Le Clear, Thomas]]		[[Category:Associates of HPB\|Le Clear, Thomas]]

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'''Thomas Le Clear''' (born in Owego, New York, 17 March 1818; died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, 26 November 1882) was a painter from the United States.

He painted [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]'s portrait in oils.

[[Category:Associates of HPB|Le Clear, Thomas]]
[[Category:Nationality American|Le Clear, Thomas]]
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