Martin Johnson Heade
(1819-1904)

Died aged c. 85

Martin Johnson Heade was born in 1819 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His father, a prosperous farmer, encouraged him to paint. He worked as a portrait and genre painter early in his life, and later turned to painting landscapes, especially salt marshes. In 1883 he married, bought a house and settled in St. Augustine. He had a wealthy patron in Henry Flagler, who furnished Heade with a studio at his Ponce de Leon Hotel. Heade’s popularity and income declined as Flagler extended his railroad further south from St. Augustine and his hotel patrons continued with it. Martin Johnson Heade died in 1904. His work was largely overlooked until 1945, when a Museum of Modern Art exhibition included one of his paintings.

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