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Period: Mid-19th Century
Dutch Golden Age Romantic Landscape Sunset Figures by River & Arch Bridge Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dutch School, 19th century
signed oil on panel, framed
framed: 17.5 x 21 inches
panel: 14 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: good and sound condition
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Evening
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Fine 19the century landscape by member of the renowned Williams family of artists, George Augustus (1814-1901). George Augustus was the son of Edward Williams (1781-1855), whose wife...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing by the Stream
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right
Category
Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1850's English Romantic Landscape Oil Shepherd Boy crossing Stream with Cattle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shepard Boy Crossing A Ford
Frank Traies (British, fl. 19th Century)
signed & dated 1852
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 23 x 29 inches
painting: 18 x 24 in...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbizon Village scene ladies chatting on the street 19th century rural painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Antoine Williams Zarra (1820-1892) was an international man of mystery. When not painting in the rural village of Barbizon and its environs, he was moonlighting as a costume and set ...
Category
Barbizon School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Southern Landscape Oil Painting Hudson River School
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Copyright 2023 Michael F. Meyer
All rights Reserved.
This painting, signed RSD on right side, has been verified by the late expert on Robert S. Duncanson, Joseph Ketner and comes with an authentication letter. This painting has exhibited and is published in Robert S. Duncanson and His Courageous Southern Travels.
This painting is one of the many beautiful southern landscape scenes that Robert S. Duncanson painted in his courageous travels south. "Robert S. Duncanson born in 1819, was an African American Hudson River School artist who painted the south before the Civil War, until his death in 1872. Although widely famous during his lifetime, this forgotten artist’s courageous journey through the antebellum south has never before been exhibited or researched until now. His brilliance was in creating captivating landscape paintings that come alive to the viewer, by focusing on the minute details of nature and of the stories he wished to communicate. Robert Duncanson...
Category
Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Théophile Clément BLANCHARD - Landscape in Normandy
Located in PARIS, FR
Théophile Clément BLANCHARD 1820 - 1849
Oil on canvas
27 x 40 cm (45 x 58 cm with the frame)
Signed lower right "Blanchard"
Very nice 19th century gilded wooden frame
French painter, lithographer and illustrator, Théophile Clément Blanchard is part of of those painters of the romantic era who represented picturesque views of France like Alexis Daligé de Fontenay or Eugène Cicéri. These painters traveled a lot and sought out picturesque sites, particularly in Normandy, Brittany, Switzerland and the Pyrenees. Blanchard participated in the illustration of “Picturesque and Romantic Travels in the Old France”. But the works of this romantic painter are rare because Blanchard died very young at twenty-nine year old ! We still know of him, in particular, a view of Bugey (dated 1846) which is at the Louvre Museum and a “Delicious Landscape” (from the 1840s) at the Salies museum at Bagnères de Bigorre...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Waterfall landscape signed Eugène Deterre, Bruges circa 1830
Located in Paris, FR
Painting, oil on panel depicting an animated landscape with river and waterfall.
Signed Deterre Eugene (1810-1842) and located Brugges.
Flemish School, circa 1830 Belgian.
WithIn ...
Category
Academic Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel
Pleasant Thoughts oil painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
Located in Hudson, NY
This painting is listed in the W.H. Cadbury and H.F. Marsh book Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: Artist in the Adirondacks, Newark, Delaware, 1986, no.59.36t. It is hand-signed "AF Tait...
Category
Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
View of Royat, Puy-de-Dôme, circa 1830
Located in Paris, FR
Painting, oil on paper pasted on panel, representing a view of the city of Royat, located in the department of Puy-de-Dôme.
Located in the western suburbs of Clermont-Ferrand, the c...
Category
Italian School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1869 Antique Dutch Large Oil Painting on Canvas by Alexander Matthew Seascape
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is a phenomenal antique Dutch school original large oil painting on canvas depicting a seascape - several sailboats on the high seas close to the coast and a boat with f...
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View Of A City, Animated Landscape by Jean Victor Bertin
Located in Paris, FR
"View of a city, animated landscape" attributed to Jean Victor Bertin.
Oil on panel VB monogrammed, Circa 1830
Within its original giltwood frame from the same period.
Dimensions without frame Height: 56 cm / 22 inches Width: 90 cm / 35.4 inches
Dimensions with frame Height: 76cm / 30.7 inches Width: 108 cm / 42.5 inches
Depth: 8 cm / 3.14 inches
Certificate of authenticity
Jean-Victor Bertin (1767-1842) was a French landscape painter of the neoclassical school.
Considered as one of the masters of the historical landscape's school, he painted an abundant production influenced by Italy.
Therefore, he is one of the most talented representatives of the landscape "adjusted" Italianate character and elegiac.
He played the role of intermediate between the historical landscape and the romantic movement.
His paintings are found in many museums : Beziers, Fontainebleau, Dijon, Honfleur, Rennes, Versailles, Angers, Autun, Carpentras, Cherbourg, Coutances, Evreux, La Fere, Lille, Quimper, Nantes, Reims, Rouen, Toulouse.
Bibliography:
Dictionary French landscape painters of the nineteenth century, Lydia Harambourg.
Dictionary of the Little Masters...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A Country Scene With a Woman Feeding the Chickens
By (Circle of) John Constable
Located in St. Albans, GB
You have the opportunity to buy this painting showing a wonderful and idyllic example of English countryside and life on a large scale impressing all who view it.
Painted around 1850 it has a beautiful free flowing style to it and encompasses everything typical to Victorian England.
Signed John Constable bottom right.
We offer free shipping worldwide.
Canvas Size: 40 x 50" (100 x 125cm)
Outside Frame Size: 51 x 61 (127.5 x 152.5cm)
John Constable
Constable was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk on 11 June 1776 and attended a school in Lavenham and his father hoped he would enter the church. His father was adamant that he would not be a painter as a profession. He met a local man named John Dunthorne who painted local scenes, mainly in nearby fields. His love of all things natural stemmed from this. Later he copied works by Girtin from a book that was lent to him by Sir George Beaumont...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cows on pasture
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
39 x 49 x 4.5 cm
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bjørn Smith-Hald (1883-1964) - Mid 19th Century Oil, The Vast Lake
Located in Corsham, GB
A charmingly naive landscape by the Norwegian artist, Bjorn Smith-Hald. The artist has signed to the lower left and the painting has been presented in a distressed gilt frame. On can...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Light on the water, luminous river landscape with two lone figures painting
By Charles Lapostolet
Located in Norwich, GB
There is a lot to see in this delicate, luminous landscape: a little fisherman, a figure in his canoe, and the beautiful light on the water. It is an ...
Category
Barbizon School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Declaration Of Love
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
COLIN François (1798-1864)
The Declaration of love
Oil on canves signed low left
Old frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 41 X 57 - Dim frame : 56 X 71 cm
COLIN François (1798-1...
Category
Academic Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impressionist Oil Painting - Vibrant Scene Through The Woodland
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School/ Date:
Douglas Stuart Allen (American/ French 1923-2021)
American born artist from Chicago, retiring to France during his latter ye...
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Antique English Oil Painting Busy Coastal Scene Fishing Boats & Windmills
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English School, 19th century
signed oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 16 x 26 inches
canvas: 12 x 22 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound con...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
British seascape Storm on coast 19th century Oil painting by David Cox
By David Cox
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower right - David Cox (1783 – 1859). The scene on the coast, the impending storm wind. The depiction of wind in art has always been a symbol of change and a reminder that everything in this world is relative... Beautiful landscape full of expression and dynamism. Antique oil painting on wood...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Chiliean Packet Large naive Ship Portrait in Watercolour Unsigned well framed.
Located in ludlow, GB
Although this is unsigned, it is one of a very collectable genre of ship's paintings. Often called Pierhead Paintings, they were frequently commissioned by the Ship's Owner and is a...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Victorian Oil Painting Fisherfolk on Windswept Beach Choppy Seas & Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A Beach Scene With Figures
George William Mote (1832-1909) British, signed
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 25 x 28 inches
canvas: 22 x 27 inches
provenance: private collectio...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Victorian Signed Oil Painting Figures by Waterfall Capel Curig Wales
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
British School, 19th century
Figures by Waterfall, Capel Curig, North Wales
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 27 x 23 inches
canvas: 22 x 17 inches
provenance: private collectio...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Genre scene Street snake charmer 19th century Oil painting by Lecurieux
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower right - Jacques - Joseph Lécurieux (Jacques - Joseph Lecurieux, 1801-1867). "Rituel du Serpent. Bou Saada" ("Snake Ritual. Bou Saada") - highly informative and masterly painted picture of Algerian street scene by acknowledged and talented 19th century french artist. His genre scenes, his landscapes and his still lifes are particularly remarkable, as well as his engravings. His life nonetheless remains mysterious, but until now his work continues to be studied and appreciated by art enthusiasts around the world. Antique oil painting on wood panel...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Wood Panel
Vedutist Venetian painter - 19th century landscape painting - Venice view
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (c. 1850) - View of Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.
40 x 63 cm without frame, 49 x 70.5 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in an antique giltwood frame.
Condit...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guillame Wintz (1823-1899) - Mid 19th Century Oil, Pastorale
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine pastoral study by French artist Guillame Wintz. The scene shows a woman perched by a flock of sheep in small grove of trees. The artist captures the animals and foliage in rem...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Victorian coastal marine painting by Edward William Cooke, R.A.
By Edward William Cooke
Located in London, GB
Large Victorian coastal marine painting by Edward William Cooke, R.A.
English, 1842
Frame: height 92cm, width 128cm, depth 6.5cm
Canvas: height 77cm, width 122cm
This superb marine ...
Category
Romantic Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Seascape Ships off Saint Vaast la Hougue Masterwork Ferdinand Perrot
Located in Stockholm, SE
Highly informative and masterly painted picture off coast scenery was done by acknowledged French master Ferdinand Perrot (1808-1841), also the name of the artist is written as: Ferd...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
19th century English Antique oil landscape with cows resting by a river
Located in Woodbury, CT
A stunning 19th century English Antique oil landscape with cows resting by a river.
Alfred Vickers was a painter of marine subjects and landscapes. He exhibited extensively througho...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape with Trees by a Lake - Eternal summer silence over an abysmal lake -
Located in Berlin, DE
Andreas Thomas Juuel (1816 Copenhagen - 1868 Copenhagen). Summer landscape with tall deciduous trees by a lake. Oil on canvas, 54,5 x 42 cm (visible size), 71 x 58 cm (frame), signed...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Loch Awe and Kilchurn Castle
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Loch Awe and Kilchurn Castle is a landscape oil painting on board by 19th century artist Edward Train (1801 -1866). Train was a British artist, painting mostly landscapes in northern England and, like this one, in Scotland. The painting is signed E. Train (lower left) and dated 1850 or 1856, the last number being too faint to be certain. From 1850 to 1880 Train flourished as an artist, but his work was exhibited in galleries in northeastern England and Edinburgh from the 1830s.
Born in Gateshead, Tyneside, Train left to take an apprenticeship with a London engraver. In the 1830s Train traveled with an expedition to the Hebrides and Shetland Islands. Here he became fascinated with the Scottish scenery that would become part of his repertoire of landscape art.
Loch Awe lies in the west of Scotland in Argyll and Bute. Kilchurn Castle, built in the 16th century, lies on a peninsula inside the Loch, on the water's edge. Train would have traveled to the Highlands and painted the dramatic scene from the east banks of Loch Awe, across from the Castle.
This painting captures the Highland mountains, loch and castle that was very much the ouevre of this artist's work. Train painted the Highlands decades before other renowned landscape artists of the 19th century, such as Alfred de Breanski, Louis Bosworth Hurt, Douglas and Duncan Cameron...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Signed Impressive 19th Century Venice Italy Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Italian oil painting of Venice. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 31L x 21H.
Category
Impressionist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Salon Painting pittoresque French Romantic BARMONT mid 19th view town Germany
Located in PARIS, FR
Honoré BARMONT Paris, 1810 – Paris, 1851 Oil on canvas 36 x 25 cm (48 x 38 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower right “Honoré Barmont / 1842” Beautiful 19th century frame in gil...
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1850’s English Fox Hunting Scene Pack of Hounds, Huntsman & Horses in Woods
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
19th Century English School
oil painting on copper, framed
framed: 18 x 14 inches
board: 13 x 8 inches
provenance: private collection, Derbyshire...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fishermen off the Coast in Choppy Seas at Sunrise - Large Oil Painting
Located in ludlow, GB
Fishing Boats off the Coast at Sunrise - Beautiful Oil Painting from William Callcott Knell, one of the superbly talented artists from the famou...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with Figures and Bread Oven by Giacomo Micheroux, XIXth century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower left. The landscape view shows in the foreground a mountain path that leads to a bread oven, where a woman prepares the bundles of wood for the f...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Continental Oil Painting City River Busy Shipping Scene framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
European School, 19th century
View of boats on water and buildings
oil on board, framed
framed: 16 x 22 inches
board: 11.5 x 17.5 inches
private collecti...
Category
Old Masters Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The River Bridge, Barbizon School, Circle of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French Barbizon School oil on canvas view of an idylic landscape signed M Legrand de C. Signed bottom left and presented in fine gilt 'Regence' style frame. The painting is on a qu...
Category
Barbizon School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Mid 19th Century Oil Majestic Lake District Mountain Valley Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Langdale Pikes, The Lake District
English School, mid 19th century
Circle of Samuel Bough, RSA (British, 1822-1878)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 12 x 15 inches
canvas: 9 x 11 inch...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Visiting Day at the US Life Saving Service
By Xanthus Russell Smith
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Although suggesting a yacht or boating club due to its prime waterfront location, this panoramic view by Philadelphia artist Xanthus Smith, most likely shows a US Lifesaving Service facility in one of the mid-Atlantic states.
Originating in the mid-1800’s, the U.S. Lifesaving Service’s earliest buildings were strictly utilitarian, but as the Service grew, so did the size of the stations. By the 1880s, they were becoming more fashionable and usually were made up of two or three structures as shown here. The main building contained the offices and berthing area for the crew and usually featured a lookout tower on the roof. Smaller buildings housed classrooms and medical facilities. Some were built to resemble a Swiss chalet and one was even designed with a clock tower. Noted architect A. B. Bibb designed stations like this one that looked much like beach resort homes with lookout towers. The stations were usually located near the approaches to major ports and were maintained by the United States Revenue Marine (later renamed the United States Revenue Cutter...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Landscape with sheep
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dutch Winter landscape with children playing on the ice by Per Wickenberg, 1839
Located in Stockholm, SE
Per Wickenberg was a Swedish artist active in the early 19th century.
He was only 34 when he died of tuberculosis; thankfully for the art history - at that point, he had practised the art of painting for more than 20 years.
After his art studies at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, he left Stockholm and travelled to Paris in 1837.
In Paris, he finally received the well-deserved success for his landscapes; he won golden medals at the Salon de Paris both in 1838 for his painting "Nordiskt vinterlandskap" and in 1839 for a painting called "Vinterfiske".
Per received a travel scholarship from Sweden and used that money for trips to Belgium and the Netherlands.
Our painting is from that time, the time after his success in Paris, and in this magnificent painting, we see his talent in capturing the cold winter mood with meticulous care of details.
Notice how nicely painted the children are on the ice, the sledge filled with hay to provide comfort and insulation against the cold.
In the background, we can see an ice skater, a detail that gives the painting depth and three-dimensionality.
This is a wonderful painting by a talented artist - who devoted almost his entire life to the art of painting.
Artist: Per (Pehr) Wickenberg (1812-1846) Swedish
Title: Dutch Winter landscape with children...
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Looking across Buttermere, Victorian 19th Century Oil Landscape
Located in London, GB
John Atkinson Grimshaw
1836 - 1893
Looking across Buttermere
Oil on canvas, signed & dated '1868' lower right
Image size: 13 ½ x 20 ½ inches (34.2 x 50.5 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
This work is dated 1868 making it one of his early works, painted during the same period as Grimshaw's other Lake District paintings...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1850’s English Hunting Countryside Oil Huntsman on Horseback and Hounds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
19th Century English School
oil painting on copper, framed
framed: 18 x 14 inches
board: 13 x 8 inches
provenance: from a collection in Derbyshir...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shepherdess and sheep at the sheepfold
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of the Hongs, Canton
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Sought by collectors worldwide, art and artifacts showing an early western presence in the Orient boomed with the opening of the China Trade by way of the sailing ship. The surviving paintings which capture the important Chinese harbors...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Early 1800's View of Buffalo NY Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school landscape painting of Buffalo, NY. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 33.5L x 23.25H.
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Very Fine 1850's English Oil The First Bridge on The Dart Romantic Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The First Bridge on The Dart
William Traies (British, 1789-1872)
signed, inscribed and dated 1851 on canvas overlap attached to the stretcher
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 15 x 19 inches
painting: 13 x 18 inches
Provenance: W & F.C Bonham & Sons Ltd,. Tooth & Tooth and Robinson & Foster, November...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fishermen at sea
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
29.2 x 43.5 x 4 cm
Category
French School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Blacksmiths. Oil Painting by Edwin Roper Stocqueler (Australian -1829 -1895)
Located in Brecon, Powys
Edwin Roper Stocqueler (Australian - 1829 - 1895), oil on canvas, horses awaiting the blacksmith's in the snow, signed, 72cm x 119cm, framed
More Information
Canvas has been lined, g...
Category
Dutch School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"White House and Trees, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School, New Jersey
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett
White House and Trees, circa 1853
Oil and gouache on paper
6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
Provenance:
Estate of Vincent Colyer (1824 - 1888)
By descent
Paul Magriel Collection
Private Collection, Long Island
Exhibited:
New York, The Finch College Museum of Art; Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum; New Orleans, Louisiana, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art; Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Art; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum; New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Museum; Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art; Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design; Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, American Drawings (Benjamin West to the present) from the Paul Magriel Collection, June 1961 - December 1962.
Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, April 14 - May 15, 1963.
Boston International Fine Art Show at the Cyclorama, Lincoln Glenn, October 19 - 23, 2022.
In the 1850s through 1860, John Frederick Kensett, painted a series of at least five landscapes of the "Shrewsbury River" (now the Navesink River) along the New Jersey shore. Art historians have described Kensett’s paintings of the river as having evolved from a trip in the fall of 1853 at the invitation of Kensett's friend, author and lecturer George Curtis. However, letters viewable at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website make it clear that Kensett had become acquainted with the area over a year earlier, most likely in connection with fellow artist and friend Thomas Prichard Rossiter.
Kensett and Rossiter had been friends since at least the 1830s. As aspiring artists, they had traveled to Europe together in the 1840s. In 1851 Rossiter married Anna Ehrick Parmly, then in her early 20s, and Kensett attended the wedding. Anna was one of four daughters of Eleazer and Anna Maria Parmly. Eleazer, one of the major figures in American dentistry history, was a wealthy and accomplished member of New York society.
When not in the city, the Parmly family gathered at Bingham Place, a sprawling estate on 275 pastoral acres spanning the peninsula between the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers along the New Jersey shore. The Bingham Place estate encompassed much of what is now Rumson, then known as Oceanic, N.J. It was a wide-open landscape of ocean views, orchards, lawns, and cattle-dotted pastures. There the Parmlys opened their doors to family, friends, and the summer breeze.
Rossiter, newly-married into the Parmly family, was likely the reason that Kensett paid a social visit to Bingham Place in the summer of 1852. On July 11, 1852, having reluctantly departed, Kensett wrote Rossiter who was still at Bingham Place:
New York to me now is that of a deserted place…marking a dismal contrast to the green lawns at Bingham Place. I saw the receding shores of Shrewsbury & the line of dust which marked your homeward course & finally the last glimpse of the Locust trees that shade the pleasant mansion & happy inmates at Bingham with any thing but a joyous spirit.
A major figure in the American luminist tradition and one of the most renowned painters of the Civil War era, John Frederick Kensett was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, in 1816. He was the son of Thomas Kensett, a British immigrant engraver, and it was in his father's New Haven firm that Kensett first learned to draw.
After mastering the rudiments of the graphic arts, he worked as an engraver in print shops in New Haven, Albany, and New York throughout the 1830's. During this period, he began to paint on his own, encouraged by a friend and fellow artist, John W. Casilear. In 1838, he made his first submission, a landscape, to the annual exhibitions of the National Academy of Design.
Desirous of continuing his training, Kensett traveled to Europe in 1840. For the next seven years, often in the company of artists such as Casilear and Asher B...
Category
Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
The Brigantine E. MILLER
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This luminous work depicts the American merchant brigantine E. MILLER. The sun sits low behind the ship, illuminating the sky with colors of yellow and deep rose tones. The sun has just touched the sea at the ship's bow and around her stern, creating a halo of light in the small waves. The E. Miller is in full sail with sailors active on her deck, with her brightly colored name pennant snapping in the wind alongside the American flag and company flag. Though unsigned, this is clearly the work of artist Elisha Tyler Baker. Baker only signed about a third of his paintings, so this is not unusual for the artist. The rendering of the vessel to his touch in the sea and sky all give very clear clues that the work is his.
Though little information remains about her voyages we know the ship E. MILLER was built in Virginia by the Surry Company in 1856 and had a weight of 132 tons. Sailing out of Richmond she was also known to frequent the port of Baltimore. From Richmond she would have carried out agricultural goods, lumber, and iron, while importing manufactured goods and guano to fertilize Virginia's tobacco fields.
Given that she was built before the Civil War and was ported in Richmond throughout the war, it's likely the E. MILLER was involved in moving goods to supply Confederate forces.
Sight Size: 23 3/4 x 32 Inches
Vallejo Gallery features the finest in marine and maritime antiques...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Shipping Off the Dutch Coast" Oil Painting
Located in ludlow, GB
Abraham Hulk (british/dutch) 1813 - 1897
"Off the Dutch Coast" -Oil on canvas, signed and framed.
Painting has been re-lined some time ago, more recently,...
Category
Victorian Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Macao
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
The oldest European buildings in China are along the once curved crescent shore of the Praya Grande, where the Portuguese explorers established and fortified their trading foothold with an entire continent. When they arrived in 1553, this small fishing village overlooked by a temple to an ocean goddess immediately became an important cultural center of the world and the stage for initial interactions between the East and West. Ever since, this port has played a role in the cosmopolitan course of world trade. (The harbor is extensively filled in and built upon today.)
In this view, more than 300 years after the Dutch established contact in the early 17th Century and western ships first sailed in the harbor, a British Sidewheel Steamer is in the port of Macao, surrounded by more than 20 Chinese vessels. The artist's perspective, looking northwest towards the Praya Grande's center, brings Praha Hill and its stone stairway in view, with the church on top. The inlaid stone walkway of the port city is full of human figures, one wearing a special red jacket while the rest wear blue or white. One westerner in a top hat at the stern post of the closest Chinese ship directs its crew outward bound...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset over the River
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower right: AB
Category
Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
The Royal Mail Coach
By Charles Cooper Henderson
Located in Washington, DC
Signed with initials in carriage: CHC
Category
Realist Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
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New England Coastal Scene with Figures
Located in New York, NY
Monogramed and dated lower right: JF.K. / ‘64.
Category
Hudson River School Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A park
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Plaster and gilded wood frame
46 x 55.5 x 5 cm
Category
Old Masters Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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