William Bliss Baker was born in New York City in 1859 and grew up in Ballston Spa, New York. He studied at the National Academy of Design from 1876 to 1880, winning the Elliott prize for drawing in 1879, and he also studied under Albert Bierstadt and Mauritz F. H. de Haas. Baker began to exhibit his work at the National Academy of Design in 1881, where he won the prestigious Hallgarten prize in 1884. By 1883 Baker’s Tonalist woodland interiors and landscapes, which are remarkable for their detail and evocative moods, had attracted the interest of the most important collectors of American art. Baker’s tragic death in 1886 was, in the words of a contemporary critic, “a distinct loss to American art. What plane of excellence he might not have reached in advancing years (he was but twenty-seven when he died) can only be premised from the work he had already accomplished, but certainly that promised the highest results.”
Baker exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1881 to 1886, Brooklyn Art Association from 1882 to 1886, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1883 and 1884, American Art Association and Union League Club in 1884, American Watercolor Society in 1884 and 1885, Boston Art Club, and the Prize Fund Exhibition in 1885. His work can be found in the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York; Saint Bonaventure University, New York; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee; University of Minnesota, Duluth; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; University of Washington, Seattle; and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada.
(Biography provided by Godel & Co. Fine Art)
Woodland Scene
By William Bliss Baker
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Woodland Scene, 1885 Oil on canvas, 38 x 50 inches (96.5 x 127 cm) Framed dimensions: 49 3/8 x 61 3/8 inches Signed and dated lower left: W Bliss Baker 1885 Provenance Albert E Clue...
Canvas, Oil
$125,000
H 12 in W 19 in
19th Century Signed Oil Painting of Sailing Off the Coast, Framed
By William Frederick de Haas
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This coastal landscape is done by the famed painted William Frederick De Haas (1830-1880). This painting shows two men in a canoe paddling off the cliff shore in the foreground with ...
Oil, Canvas
$3,475
H 15 in W 19 in D 2 in
Luminous Hudson River School Landscape Cows Grazing Wide Gold Frame Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A finely rendered 19th century Hudson River School landscape depicting cattle grazing within an expansive open field, set beneath a softly illuminated sky. The composition is anchore...
Canvas, Oil
$9,500
H 12 in W 17 in
Early 20th Century Oil Painting of Jamestown, Virginia Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
John A Mooney is a Virginian artist who has been known to paint trompe loeil and landscape paintings. Born in Buffalo, New York, John A. Mooney (1843-1918) traveled to Georgia to enl...
Oil, Canvas
$6,000
H 19 in W 29 in
"Grand Manan" Harrison Bird Brown, Maine Landscape, Hudson River School Seascape
By Harrison Bird Brown
Located in New York, NY
Harrison Bird Brown (1831 - 1915) Grand Manan Oil on canvas 12 x 20 inches Signed with initials lower left Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine's Casco Bay...
Canvas, Oil
$8,500
H 24 in W 40 in D 6 in
Oakland, the estate of Theophilus Cushing Hersey in Portland, Maine
By Harrison Bird Brown
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915) "Oakland," the estate of Theophilus Cushing Hersey in Portland, Maine" Unsigned 24 x 40 inches (Sight Size) 35 x 52 inches (Frame Size) Oil on canvas ...
Canvas, Oil, ABS
$23,500
H 19 in W 30 in
On the Hudson, 19th Century Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting, Framed
By John Bunyan Bristol
Located in New York, NY
John Bunyan Bristol (1826-1909) American, Hillsdale, NY - New York, NY Hudson River School Painting “On the Hudson” 19th century Oil on canvas 30 x 19 in. unframed 27 x 39 framed Sig...
Oil, Canvas
Cows Grazing in Field
By George Wright
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This serene Hudson River School painting by George Wright captures a peaceful moment of pastoral life, where three cows rest and graze under a wide, luminous sky. The composition gen...
Canvas, Oil
$19,807
H 25 in W 35 in
Boston Yacht Club - 1869 - Hudson River School Landscape by Winkworth Allan Gay
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by Hudson School River painter Winkworth Allan Gay. The work depicts a view of the boats of the Boston Yacht Club in Massachusetts Bay. We be...
Canvas, Oil
$53,644
H 28.94 in W 55.12 in D 2.37 in
Niagara Falls 1870s Large Panoramic Oil Painting New York State And Ontario
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Alexandre Le Bihan. French ( b.1839 - d.1924 ). Niagara Falls. Oil On Canvas. Signed Lower Left. Image size 23.2 inches x 49.2 inches ( 59cm x 125cm ). Frame size 28.9 inches x 55.1...
Canvas, Oil
Reflections of Trees at Dusk
Located in San Francisco, CA
Much about this late 19th-century painting remains a mystery, including the name of the artist who only left their identity in a single-letter monogram. But the work's moody embrace ...
Canvas, Oil
$385,000
H 12.5 in W 20.25 in
View on the Hudson, the Catskills in the Distance
By Francis Augustus Silva
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: F.A. SILVA.
Canvas, Oil
$7,000
H 26 in W 30 in
"Couple in the Field, " James Brade Sword, Hunter on Farm Landscape
By James Brade Sword
Located in New York, NY
James Brade Sword (1839 - 1915) Couple in the Field Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Signed lower left After a childhood in Macao, China, James Brade Sword started out in life, after hi...
Canvas, Oil