The book was never published however, Heade remained fascinated by orchids and hummingbirds, and he painted dozens of them, all different. More than 50 people bought subscriptions, but 200 were needed. Heade made 20 small paintings titled “The Gems of Brazil” for the book. Fletcher who proposed to use Heade’s illustrations for his book Fletcher’s Study of South American Hummingbirds. Heade went to Brazil with the naturalist Reverend J. “Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds” (1871) Heade made his first trip to Brazil in 1863. He became friends with Kensett, Bierstadt, Gifford, and Frederick Edwin Church, whose “Heart of the Andes” (1857) (66’’ x130’’) he saw at the Metropolitan Museum. Heade painted seascapes, salt marshes, and small horizontal landscapes, concentrating on lighting effects and atmosphere. Heade settled in New York City in 1859 and worked at the Tenth Street Studio, where many of the Hudson River artists worked. He began to do more landscapes starting in the1850s.
An itinerant portrait painter, he traveled along the East coast. When he returned to Pennsylvania, he showed his portraits at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the New York Academy of Design in 1841. Heade traveled abroad in 1838 to study art and lived in Rome for two years.
Heade’s first art teacher was Edward Hicks, a folk artist and Quaker minister. His family ran the Lumberville Store and Post Office.
Martin Johnson Heade (b.1819, Bucks County, PA) is a unique American landscape and flower painter.
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