Joseph Antonio Hekking

Pleasant Day

John Henry Dolph, is best known as painter of domestic animals, especially cats. He was born in 1835 in Fort Ann, New York, and spent much of his career th...

Signed lower right. A landscape and marine painter, William Ongley was born in England in 1836 and came to America with his family and settled in New York. His art studies took him ...

Signed lower left. Most noted for his paintings of forest interiors, Roswell Shurtleff settled in Hartford, Connecticut but spent his summers painting his signature works in the Adirondacks at Keene Valley, New York. He and John Lee Fitch successfully encouraged other artists to join them including Winslow Homer, J Alden Weir, James Smillie...

Signed lower right. This painting was exhibited in the Christopher Pearse Cranch landscape exhibition in 2007 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum and published and illustrated in the cata...

Signed and dated 1877. Although born in Jamestown, New York, Mortimer Smith would become well-known as a Detroit architect and artist by the end of the nineteenth century. Little is known of Smith's earlier years; however, scholars speculate that he studied in Oberlin and Sandusky, Ohio before moving to Detroit in 1855. There, the artist flourished and became famous for his crisp landscapes of local scenery, including his beloved winter scenes. In addition to his artistic career, Smith founded a successful architectural firm by the name of Smith, Hynchman and Grylls; Smith's reputation in the visual arts was often overshadowed by his draftsmanship as an architect. Nevertheless, he was a vital force in Detroit's arts community exhibiting his works in venues including the Detroit Art...

Signed lower right. A landscape and marine painter, William Ongley was born in England in 1836 and came to America with his family and settled in New York. His art studies took him ...

Painted by Hudson River School artist Johann Hermann Carmiencke, "Hudson River Landscape" 1865 is oil on canvas, measures 12 x 18 inches, and is signed and dated 1865 at the lower ri...

Edward Hill (1843 - 1923) Haying at a North Conway Farm with Mount Washington in the Distance, New Hampshire Oil on canvas 13 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Dallas, Texas Born in Wolverhampton, England in 1843, Edward Hill was the ninth of ten children. Though ultimately less well known than his older brother Thomas Hill (1829-1908), Edward was a productive painter in oil and watercolor for more than sixty years, producing images of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, southern genre scenes, still-life paintings, portraits, American Indian pictures...

Signed and dated lower left: D. F. Bigelow / 70

F. Alexander Wust paints a stellar sunset over a hillside with light red color in his artwork entitled, “Sunset Landscape.”

Worthington Whittredge paints an iconic scene of the burgeoning West of the United States, specifically Colorado, in his artwork entitled, “A Mountain Trail, Colorado.”

Jasper Francis Cropsey paints a view out from the Palisades onto the Hudson River in his artwork entitled, “Under the Palisades.”