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Tonalist Painting Sunset Figures Wheat Barbizon Framed 19th Century Oil Painting

1860

Important framed 19th century Hudson River School landscape. Possibly estate stamped. Housed in an impressive period frame. Oil on canvas.

Nicely painted 1880s European impressionist beach scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Very finely painted and impressive in person. Excellent ready to hang condit...

A beautiful late 19th century English impressionist oil on board depicting an extensive landscape at sunset. Excellent quality work by an accomplished artist. Indistinctly signed lo...

A fine tonalist landscape by American artist J. Francis Murphy (1853-1921). Murphy was born in Oswego, New York, he moved to Chicago in 1868, where his father was employed in the shipping industry. In Chicago, Murphy began working as a scene painter in a local theatre and was quickly promoted to lead his co-workers. Largely self-taught, his only training consisted of a few classes at the Chicago Academy of Design. There he became friends with Emil Carlsen and Theodore Robinson, and in 1873, Academy members elected him an Associate; a few weeks later, he became an Academician. His work was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, where he was inducted eleven years later.He won numerous prizes, medals and honors for his landscape paintings, which are said to rank with those of George Inness, Alexander Wyant, and Homer Martin. Although his world was a limited one, his landscapes captured the forms of nature and the subtle nuances of the scene. Murphy was referred to as the "American Corot" because of his similarity to the painting style of Camille Corot (1796-1875), one of the original Barbizon...