Theodore Clement Steele

1847 - 1926  (78 years)

• Name	Theodore Clement Steele
  Born	11 Sep 1847	Owen County, Indiana
  Gender	Male
  Died	24 Jul 1926
  Person ID	I30325	DNA Family 1 Genealogies
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Samuel Hamilton Steele,   b. 31 Jul 1823, Owen County, Indiana ,   d. 16 Aug 1861, Bainbridge, Putnam County, Indiana  (Age 38 years)
  Mother	Harriet Newell Evans,   b. 21 Mar 1823, Owen County, Indiana ,   d. 25 Apr 1908, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon  (Age 85 years)
  Married	4 Feb 1846	Owen County, Indiana
  Family ID	F9162	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Larkin,   d. Unknown
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2009
  Family ID	F9163	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Selma Neubacher,   d. Unknown
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2009
  Family ID	F9164	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Theodore Clement Steele, perhaps one of the most revered of all painters who remained in this state, was a native of Indiana. He was born in Owen County in 1847. When he was four years old, his family moved to Waveland, where he received his early schooling and some instruction in art at the Waveland Academy. He had very little formal training in painting, but he probably derived some help from visits to Cincinnati and Chicago in his impressionable years. His first activities as a professional painter took him to Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1870. Three years later he moved to Indianapolis and opened a studio on the Bradshaw Block, where he remained until 1880. Portrait painting continued to be his chief activity during that period, and although he painted several prominent people, he was not commissioned to portray the governors then in office. In 1880, he went abroad for more intensive training at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich and stayed there five years.