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Mt ET Seton (Czechia)
The Křemelná mountain in the Šumava mountains of Czechia was nicknamed Mt. ET Seton by the Woodcraft League of Czechoslovakia in August 1990.
It is located at 49°7′21″ / 13°26′53″ and is 1,125 meters above sea level.
On Saturday, 14 August 2010, the day of the 150th birthday of Chief Black Wolf, a group of Czech Woodcraft League members ascended the Křemelná mountain, which was nicknamed Mt. E. T. Seton exactly 20 years before, shortly after the Czech Woodcraft League woke up from her long dormancy enforced by the totalitarian communist regime. Mt. E. T. Seton is situated in the most pristine area of the National Park Šumava (Bohemian Forest), which borders the Bavarian Forest in Germany.
Other Seton Places in the United Kingdom
Ernest Thompson Seton was born in South Shields, Durham, England, and moved to Canada with his family as a young child. Although he lived in the United States most of his adult life, he remained a British Subject until 1931.
He returned to the United Kingdom on numerous occasions, first to pursue his art education and then frequently to lecture in support of his literary career.
Seton studied in London, competed in a competition, and won a significant scholarship to the School of Painting at the Royal Academy of Art.
While studying in London, he spent a great deal of time in the library of the British Museum. Under 21 at the time, Seton was not eligible for access to the library. After an appeal to the trustees, he was granted life admission.
He often sketched in the Royal Zoo, located in Regent’s Park.
He spoke and met at many prestigious locations as a well-known and successful author and lecturer.
Seton Places in France
Seton studied at L’ Académie Julian from January 1891 to April 1892. He returned to Paris from July 1894 through April 1896 and married in New York on May 30, 1896.
Seton took a room at a small hotel at 10 Rue Croix des Petits Champs, which is now a commercial building with apartments not far from the Louvre.
At the time of Seton’s studies, L’ Académie Julian was located at the Passage des Panoramas in Paris. The school relocated several times and ultimately ceased to exist as a separate entity in 1968.
The Passage des Panoramas is a covered passageway—a sort of forerunner to a shopping mall—and is still a popular location today. It is located at 11 Bd Montmartre.
One of Seton’s favorite places to sketch was the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, a zoo that is a part of the Jardin des Plantes, the Paris Botanical Gardens in central Paris on the banks of the Seine and is also the home of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History). At the Ménagerie, he was particularly fond of sketching and painting wolves. Here, he painted The Sleeping Wolf, which was accepted for the Grand Salon in 1891.
His controversial painting, Triumph of the Wolves (later known as Awaited in Vain), was painted in St. Cloud Park, about five miles west of Paris, on the banks of the Seine. Here he used various props, including a skeleton, wolf skins, peasants’ clothes, and a bucket of cow’s blood to set up the grizzly scene. He had hoped this painting would be accepted for the Grand Salon of 1892, but it was rejected and was reported to have shocked the judges.
When he returned to Paris, he painted his other major wolf painting, The Pursuit or La Poursuite. The Pursuit was well-received, but the painting was once again rejected by the Grand Salon, which did accept six of his preliminary sketches of individual wolves.
Seton’s Birthplace
Ernest Thompson Seton was born on August 14, 1860, in the town of South Shields, Durham, England, at Wellington Terrace No. 6. The house still stands, but the street has been renamed Beach Road.
This marker was originally placed on a tree near the Seton birthplace. According to a story published in the Shields Gazette on February 8, 1996, the plaque was located and retrieved from a rubbish heap and given to the newspaper columnist, who returned it to the house. The plaque is now attached directly to the house.
This is Seton’s birthplace as it appears today (as of 2022).
The current owner has named the house “Seton House” in honor of its famous previous resident.
