Hudson River School Art

A fine and important painting by the celebrated American Hudson River School painter William Trost Richards (1833-1905), the painting depicting the coastline at sunset Atlantic City,...

Signed and dated lower left: "SW Griggs 73". In fine condition.

Initialed and dated lower right: R. 1883

Signed lower right

Samuel Conkey (1830 - 1904) Brooklyn, New York, 1873 Signed lower right; titled and dated on the stretcher Oil on canvas 6 x 11 1/2 inches

Signed lower left. Bio: Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Julie Beers was a younger sister of artists James McDougal Hart and William Hart and grew up in Albany, New York. Her sch...

Signed lower left: DOUGHTY

Signed lower right: F.A. SILVA.

19th century American school; unsigned and painted circa 1860. Displayed in an elegant and substantial, swept, gilt-gesso and carved wood frame o...

Sometimes a drive into the countryside can revive the spirit and soul like nothing else, thereby energizing the entire body. Highpoint Lake is one of those tranquil spots. A veteran from the New Jersey and New York art world, artist Gerald Lopato...

Unknown White Mountain Artist White Mountain Landscape, 19th Century Oil on board 5 x 9 1/4 in. Framed: 7 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.

Signed lower left: H. Herzog

Antique American luminous seascape sunset oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 20L x 12H.

Antique American landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 11L x 9H.

In this unique work on paper titled “Study of Three Coastal Scenes,” William Trost Richard paints three separate studies of varied coastal scenes featuring boats.

Monogram lower right. But for sheer numbers, as well as degree of fame, the activity which is most closely linked with this Adirondack town is painting. Mrs. Peggy O'Brien, who has long studied Adirondack artists, finds over 400 have painted in these mountains and Keene Valley was the summer capital for many of them. The earliest in the valley are Asher B. Durand (1796-1800), considered a co-founder of the Hudson River School, John Casilear (1811 -1893) and John F. Kensett (1816 - 1871) coming in 1848. Frederick Perkins came in 1857, boarded at the Bruce home, and with Orson Phelps sat on Mt. Marcy and named Skylight, Basin and Saddelback Mountains. Roswell Shurtleff came first to Keene Valley in 1868 and returned each year for the rest of his life, being, with A.H. Wyant, the first artists to have summer places here. Wyant built on the hillside east of the AuSable, Shurtleff on the west. Winslow Homer joined John Fitch and Shurtleff in Keene Valley for hunting, fishing, and painting. John Adams Parker was here by 1866, subsequently building. Robert Monior came in 1875 and by 1882 had a house that became a center for art students. Samuel Coleman arrived in the 1860's. Homer Martin (1836-1897), Sanford Gifford (1823-1880), and Arthur Parton (1842-1914) are but a few more of the recognized American artists who painted the AuSable lakes and mountain of Keene in the nineteenth century. In fact, the Heidelberg Museum of the Paletinate's salute to the American Bicentennial was a 1976 exhibit of work by the first German to the American scenes, a man named Kappel, and featured scenes around Beede's. John Marin brought Keene Valley art into the twentieth century. Harold Weston, son of S. Burns Weston, wintered alone at his AuSable Club studio 1920-21 to start his painting career, and gave us later life a good local history as well as art sampling in his autobiography Freedom in the Wilds (1971). Present day artists living or working in the town include Bruce Mitchell...

Monogrammed lower right: JMcE; on verso: Sources of the Delaware

Signed indistinctly lower right

Antique American impressionist western landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 17L x 9H.

Tonalist sunset painting by American artist George Herbert McCord (1848-1909), "Boating at Sunset" depicts a lone figure boating on a body of glimmering water as the sun sets behind a mountain. A crescent moon is depicted at upper left. Painted in oil on canvas the painting measures 12 x 16 inches. It is signed at the lower left. The work is framed and ready to hang. A member of the second generation of Hudson River School painters, George Herbert McCord is known for his atmospheric landscape and marine paintings executed in a variety of media, including oil, pastel, and watercolor, and which capture a variety of locales. McCord was born in 1848 in New York City, where he lived and worked his entire life. After 1883, he kept an additional studio in Morristown, NJ. McCord traveled throughout North America, painting in the Berkshire, Adirondack and Laurentian mountain ranges, the Hudson River Valley, the coast of New England, the Upper Mississippi, and Florida, which had become popular among Eastern vacationers. He was among a select group of artists commissioned by the Santa Fe Railroad to paint the Grand Canyon, and also participated in a special painting excursion to the Erie Canal...

Beautiful original pastel on archival paper of Mount Shasta in Northern California by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas. Signed and dated 1874 lower right. Condition is excellent. Recently professionally matted and framed in a antique silver style gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 27 by 36 inches. Under glass. Provenance: A Pennsylvania collector. George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...

Original pastel on archival paper by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas Brewerton. A Northern California scene near Mount Shasta. Signed lower left and dated 1876. Recently professionally matted and framed in new antique silver style gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 27 by 36 inches. Under glass. Condition is excellent. Provenance: A Pennsylvania collector. George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...

Monogramed and dated lower right: JF.K. / ‘64.

Signed and dated lower left of center: WMT. Richards 1875

Signed lower right and dated 1894.

Signed and dated lower left: AT Bricher. 1872; on verso: Morning / At Narragansett / A.T. Bricher.

Signed and dated lower right: DOUGHTY / 1832

"Landscape at Sunset" is a 20 x 30 inches, oil on canvas Hudson River painting by American artist Frederick DeBourg Richards. The canvas is signed and dated in the lower right. The photographer and landscape painter Frederick De Bourg Richards was born in Wilmington, Delaware. During the middle 1850s Richards traveled extensively in Europe, where he executed commissioned paintings of the Swiss Alps and Italian countryside. Around 1865 he devoted himself to painting landscapes only. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1848 and 1891, the National Academy of Design from 1865 to 1876, and the Brooklyn Art...

Catskill Clove, 1858, an autumn landscape by Hudson River School artist John Williamson (1826-1885) is oil on canvas. The work measures 9 x...

Evening, 1885 by Hudson River School artist Frank Anderson (1844-1891) is oil on canvas. The work measures 15.13 x 24.25 inches and is sign...

American genre painting by artist Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905), "The Old Pippin Tree," painted in 1878 depicts the classic autumn activity of apple picking...

Signed lower left: Edward Moran; on verso: Edward Moran, 1876; on stretcher bar: Orient Bay Lifting the Fish Pound

Signed and dated lower right: WM.T. Richards. 1872.

Monogrammed and dated lower right: DJ 72; on verso: Buck Mountain. / Lake George. / David Johnson, 1872.

Initialed lower right: SRG

Signed lower right in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock

Signed and dated 1879.

Monogrammed lower right: AB

“Study for Home in the Woods” by Thomas Cole is a serene depiction of a home flanking a forest lake, complete with a figure in a boat and cows grazing in the grass.

William Rickarby Miller Rapelyea House, New York, 1884 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 20 x 30 inches Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York Born in Staindrop, County Du...

WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833‒1905) Seascape with Crashing Waves, 1889 Oil on canvas 20 x 40 inches Signed and dated 1889, lower right Provenance: William Varieka Fine Art, Newport R...

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...

Unsigned mystery 19th century American western scene. Oil on board. 7 x 8 1/2. Period Hudson River School frame.

A fine large landscape of a New England farm with cows, stone arch bridge, farmhouse and barns by American artist John White Allen Scott (1815-1907). Scott was born in Roxbury, MA and apprenticed with lithographer William Pendleton and later worked with Fitz Henry Lane...

Signed lower right: MJ Heade

Singed lower right. William R. Davis is noted as a marine painter. He grew up in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He is a self-taught artist whose oil paintings typically capture the serene light of sunrise or sunset on the water. He employs many of the techniques traditionally used by American luminist painters to realize his personal vision, showing a marked preference for 19th century subjects. In 1987, Davis had the first one artist show ever mounted at the Mystic Maritime Gallery in Mystic, Connecticut. All twenty of the works featured in that show were sold at the opening reception. In 1990, he received the Mystic Maritime Gallery Award of Excellence, and his painting entitled Calm Day Off Latimer's Reef appeared on the cover of Mystic's The Art of the Sea Calendar in 1993. Three of his paintings were also used in the book Shipwrecks Around Boston by Cape Cod author, William P. Quinn. Rockport Publishers has included Boston Harbor at Sunset in a new book entitled, A Gallery of Marine Art. Much of Davis' early works pays homage to 19th century artists such as James Bard, Martin Johnson Heade, Antonio Jacobsen and Fitz Hugh Lane...

Faintly signed lower right. Born in Paisley, Scotland, William Hart became known for serene, bucolic, romantic landscapes with smooth finely executed brush-work. Many of his paintings had cattle and realistic figures diminished in the landscape, a motif he began in the late 1880s when he was inspired by the Lower Keene Valley in northern New York state. Hart also painted portraits, beginning this subject matter when he was age 18. He, as well as his brother James McDougal Hart, was a second generation "Hudson River School" painter, and a sister, Julie Hart Beers was also a successful artist. George Inness and Asher Durand were major influences, although he was basically self taught. Hart was the first president of the Brooklyn Academy of Design and also an instructor there. He was founder and three-term president of the American Watercolor Society, and his popular landscapes were exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design and the American Art Union. He was a highly regarded teacher, and pupils included Homer Martin and Lemuel Miles. He studied art in Scotland for three years and came to Troy, New York in 1831 as a young boy and apprenticed to Eaton and Gilbert Coachmakers where he painted decorative panels...

Signed lower right: R.D. Yelland

Antique American Hudson River School sunset landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1874. Signed in monogram. Housed in a giltwood frame. Image size, 30L x 22H.

Signed and dated right of center: J.F. Cropsey / 1852

JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT (1816-1872) Woodland Waterfall Oil on canvas 14 x 12 inches Signed lower right

Alfred T. Bricher (1837-1908) "Coast of Grand Manan Island" Watercolor on paper 10 x 21 inches (sight) Signed lower left "What memory is to the servile copyist, imagination is to t...

Jervis McEntee (1828-1891) "Vermont Sugaring" Oil on canvas 20 x 30 inches Signed lower right: McE_N.A. PROVENANCE: Barridoff Galleries, Portland, Maine, American and European Art, August 6, 1997, lot 179. Jervis McEntee was born in the Hudson River Valley, in Rondout, New York, in 1828. At the age of twenty-two, McEntee studied for a year with Hudson River School master, Frederic E. Church, in New York City. He then worked briefly in the flour and feed business, before deciding, in 1855, to devote himself entirely to painting. He took up a studio at the legendary Tenth Street Studio Building, where artists such as Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt, and Church himself worked and exhibited. In 1858, McEntee had an additional studio built next to his father's home in Rondout, where the artist spent many summers painting the nearby Catskill Mountains. He was elected an associate member of the National Academy in 1860, and became a full member the following year. During the Civil War, he fought with the Union...

Otto Norquist (1859-1906) "Gordon Setter in a Landscape, 1890" Oil on canvas 22 x 27 inches Signed and dated 1890, lower right Otto Norquist was born in...

Alfred T. Bricher (1837-1908) "Coast of Grand Manan Island" Watercolor on paper 10 x 21 inches (sight) Signed lower left "What memory is to the servile copyist, imagination is to t...

Signed and dated indistinctly lower right: J.F. Cropsey / 187[6]

JOSHUA SHAW (1776-1861) Figures Boating on a Lake Oil on canvas 14 ½ x 20 inches English-born Joshua Shaw made significant contributions to the early development of American landsca...

DAVID JOHNSON (1827-1908) Landscape with Mansion, 1863 Oil on canvas 18 x 28 inches Signed and dated 1863, lower left