Antique Painting, Rural Winter Landscape, Maine Scene, Sarah Jane Prentiss (1823-1877)
Maine [born in Paris, Maine, died and buried in West Paris, Maine]
This painting is signed at lower right, she signed very few of here works
Oil on Canvas, original stretcher, period gilt frame
Displaying a logger, landowner and child with sled; a team of oxen…mountainous view.
The artist was not well known nor prolific. Her works speak to her enjoyment of the
nature that surrounded her; her works were done for enjoyment.
After the death of her mother in 1859, she lived with her aunt in Wakefield,
Massachusetts. Prentiss studied drawing and watercolor under Stephen Salisbury
Tuckerman at the School of Design in Boston. During the Civil War, in 1861, Miss
Prentiss volunteered as a nurse serving at the hospitals of Maryland where she
contracted malaria…. Never fully recovering, (eventually leading to her early death).
After her war service she returned to Paris, Maine to paint; in 1874 she traveled to
Munich and the Bavarian and Italian Alps…again returning home in late 1875, her
health having worsened, she was welcomed at her brothers home, "Elm Bank," in
Bangor, Maine. She died there October 21, 1877.
The picture is in very good condition with scattered minor fill;
two tiny punctures are restored.
(Frame: 21" x 17.5"; view: 17.25" x 13.75")
$3,285.00
632-83
Antique Painting, Fishing Party on the Upper Hudson, Thomas Doughty
Attributed to Thomas Doughty (1793-after 1860)
A fine example of the Hudson River School artists work. Two men on a cliff
overlooking the water observe fishermen in a dory; typical of Doughty is the red
jacket and the silver streak in the sky
Oil on canvas
Thomas Doughty was born in Philadelphia, he was the first American artist to work
exclusively as a successful landscapist; he is credited along with Thomas Cole and
Asher B. Durand as founders of the Hudson River School of landscape painting
He was known for his quiet, often atmospheric landscapes of the rivers and mountains
of Pennsylvania, New York and especially the Hudson River Valley, and New England.
The picture remains in a high degree of originality with one small repair in lower section
and very minor scattered retouch.
(Frame: 29.5" x 25.5" view: 23.5" x 19.5")
$21,000.00
1148-3
Antique Folk Art, Mountainous Landscape Village with Train Scene
Anonymous, 19th Century
A colorful composition displaying the Dutch flag, possibly painted in America
Possibly Limburg, a Dutch Colony or a fantasy scene. Limburg is the only hilly part of the Netherlands
and had some industry based on the coal mining in the area; Drenthe landscape is dotted with hills
created by a south moving glacier during the last ice age. Of course, this is merely supposition. The
magnificent frame is modern, painting is on a clear white pine stretcher;
frame: 32" x 39"; view: 30" x 23")
$9,350.00
928-108
Antique American Folk Art, Painting, Lake George, New York, Ralph Redpath
Signed, Redpath 1867
A vibrant, and unusually artful large-scaled folk-art painting of Lake George; signed and
dated by the mid-19th century New York artist Ralph Redpath who worked in
the Mohawk and Hudson River valleys. A work identified as Redpath is in the collection of
the National Gallery of Art, Washington, a Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbish in 1955.
(Period walnut frame with gilt liner; original stretcher; 41.25 ” x 30.5” framed)
$10,375.00
240-241
Painting, Lake George, Hudson River Valley School
Anonymous, circa 160-1870
Oil on canvas
Late summer scene, sidewheeler, sail boats and village in the distance
(Wax lined, extremely minor in-painting; housed within gilt frame;
frame: 27.25" x 19.25"; view: 21.75" x 13.75")
$4,825.00
1039-44
George Lafayette Clough, (1824-1901) Waiting for the Catch, Painting
Auburn, New York,
Oil on canvas
George Lafayette Clough was a notable landscape painter of the 19th Century; he was born in Auburn, New York. He was essentially self-taught but studied under Charles Loring Elliott from whom he received much training. Clough traveled to Europe to study and spent time in Italy, Holland, and Germany during the 1850s. John Lafayette Clough was a member of the Brooklyn Brush and Palette Club and exhibited at the National Academy, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Brooklyn Art Association, Boston Art Club, The Cosmopolitan Art Association and others. (The painting is lined; mounted on new stretcher; frame: 43.5 x 41.5"; view: 24 x 36")
$6,650.00
659-171
Vintage Pastel on Paper, Summer Sailboats – Tidal Landscape
Unsigned, Early 20th Century
(Frame: 18" x 14"; view: 11.25" x 7.5")
$395.00
110-853
Mt. Vernon, American School Sandpaper Drawing, Charcoal, Tomb of Washington
Washington’s residence, his new [1831] tomb in foreground, grazing sheep and gardens overlooking the Potomac. The work is housed within a period gilt frame.
(Excellent condition;
25"x18" framed, 20.25x13.75-site)
$1,495.00
492-206
Folk Art Painting, Bucolic Scene, Family at Campfire, Castle in Landscape
Anonymous, 19th Century
Watercolor
Seen in the foreground of the mountainous vista is a water-view castle within landscape…a caldron boils over open-fire, mother is seated with baby on her knee, at the fire is another woman, dog and child; a gentleman tends the horse and wagon.
(Frame: 23" x 17.75"; view: 19" x 13.75")
$1,375.00
290-27
Over-Mantel Landscape Painting, Eighteenth Century, Anonymous
Oil on canvas
Offering a perspective view…figures in landscape, water view, mountains, courting swans; the man and woman tending cows and sheep
(Lined, frame: 55.5 x 34.25"; view: 52 x 30.75")
$16,850.00
107-162
Watercolor, Lovely, Fine and Outstanding,
Chinese Botanical, Circa 1820
Painted on Whatman Paper
With Conkling family history of ownership, Albany, New York
(Frame: 28 x 23”; view: 13 x 17”)
$1,050.00
659-166
Painting, Westchester Marshes, George Henry Smillie (1840 – 1921)
Oil on canvas, circa 1870 – 1880
Painterly depiction of a cottage by a river, from the perspective of the opposite shore. Smillie would sometimes write the location of his landscapes following his signature, and the inscription [N.Y.] follows with the title Westchester Marshes. The title, artist’s name, and partial address [650 Madison St] is written on a label affixed to the rear surface of the stretcher.
(Very good condition; view: 19.5” x 30”; Frame: 23.5” x 33.5”)
$7,800.00
593-79
Folky Painting, White Waterfront Mill Buildings,
Swans and Lone Mallard Drake
Anonymous artist, oil on canvas, third-quarter 19th century
A peaceful composition within period frame…displaying good color
Original stretcher, small repair at top-center just under frame; couple fly spec size fills, else fine and original;
(frame: 28" x 23.25"; view: 23.5" x 18.25)
$975.00
1208-5
Folky Painting, Mountainous River Scene, Monor Bridge, 1882
Signed Fawn Coman [unknown]
The painting displays lovely shades of blue and green, a wonderful palate; the work features a building, a woman in red dress; man walking across bridge, a paddle wheeler and sailboats. Overall great condition.
(Frame: 29.25" x 25.5"; view: 23" x 19.5)
$1,265.00
1208-4
American School House Portrait Within Landscape
Reynolds’s Bristolboard Blind Stamp at Upper Right Recto
Anonymous Artist, Likely 1880’s
Pencil and watercolor within period gilt frame
(Excellent condition, not examined out of frame
(Frame: 23 x 19"; view: 20 x 15.5")
$1,050
928-81
Pair of Small Late Nineteenth Century Landscapes, Oil on Paper Board
Unknown Artist; gilt frames
(Frame: 7.5 by 6.75”, sight-size: 6.5 by 4.5”)
$310
231-40
Winter Scene, Children at Play
Wilhelm Meyerheim (1815 to 1882)
Dated 1854
German
Oil on canvas
Wilhelm Meyerheim was born in Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland); eventually settling in Berlin, working there until his death. His father, a talented portrait painter, provided him with his early training before he studied in Danzig, eventually continuing his education at the Academy in Berlin. His works suggest that he spent time sketching the peasantry in the countryside's of Hesse and Tyrol. The artist soon became popular painter - creating scenes of everyday outdoor life, simple activities which often included his favorite subject's, children and horses; winter scenes, often with the same old tree as depicted herein-silhouetted against the winter sky. The work has be lined and stretched on a modern strainer and is mounted within a period frame. Extremely minor fill mostly confined to outermost edges. Dimensions: 25.5 by 31.75: framed; 21 by 27.5" sight-size.
$14,950
786-9
American School Folk Art, Landscape, Residence of Mrs. Hoover, Federal
Watercolor, pencil, and Gouache, Indistinct Signature
Benevola, Maryland
19th Century
A house portrait, "The Residence of Mrs. Hoover, Benevola, Maryland", a blue Federal home having a white picket fence and outbuildings with family and carriage in the foreground, signed indistinctly on the lower right.
(Dimensions: 21.25 by 27.5" frame, 12.25 by 18.5" sight-size.)
$7,285
605-73
Painting, Landscape, Attributed to De Grailly (New York and France, 1804 to 1899)
Road to Town, Travelers on Horseback and Foot, Figural Groups, Dogs
Oil on canvas
Victor De Grailly, Unsigned, Possibly the work of De Grailly
(Relined, scattered minor retouch; original stretcher, modern frame measuring 35 by 29.75"; view: 28.25 by 23.5")
$2,950
659-83
Painting, Daniel Charles Grose (1838 to 1900)
Orientalist View of an Indian Palace with Shipping and Distant Hills
Oil on canvas (Frame: 18 by 14"; view: 11.5 by 7.5")
Daniel Grose was born in England; he lived in Canada during the 1860s and in Washington DC in the 1870s and 1880s. His uncle was the well-known English landscape painter Francis Grose; it is assumed that Daniel settled in Canada whereas so many of his romantic landscapes are in Canadian museum collections. The painting remains in fine original condition and is mounted on original stretcher; frame is original and has old and minor restoration and/or imperfections.
$1,495
335-109
Primitive House Farm Portrait
Found in Ohio
Circa 1900
Oil on pressed board, fine condition (Frame: 28 by 20.25"; view: 22.5 by 14.75")
$1,395
659-33
Previous Offerings or Gone to New Homes
Painting, Chrysler Building, New York City, Oak Frame
Anonymous, Early 20th Century
Oil on paperboardSOLD
Caption at bottom of painting reads: "42 LOOKING EAST FROM 6 AVE WORLDS BUSIEST AT THE PARK SUB" (Retouch limited to sky; frame: 35.5 by 32.5", sight-size: 24.5 by 28.5")
1026-10SOLD
Samuel Griggs, Painting, Old Farmhouse and Barns, White Mountains
Oil on Canvas
Original stretcher and frame - SOLD
Samuel W. Griggs (1827-1898) was known as a painter of the White Mountains of New Hampshire; the Boston City Directory listed him as an Architect from 1848 to 1852…as an artist from 1854 to his death in 1898. The competency of his work strongly suggests that he had professional training, he likely studied under Albert Bierstadt before Bierstadt was well known. Griggs' earliest listed painting, a White Mountain scene, is a work dated1858. Albert Bierstadt coordinated a New Bedford, Massachusetts exhibition in 1858 where Griggs exhibited three works including a White Mountain view. He also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1863, as well as the Boston Art Club at various times. Samuel Griggs died in Boston in the year 1898. The stretcher displays a label for Chas. J. Edmands, Dealer in Artist materials, No. 12 Broomfield Street, Boston, Mass.
(Frame: 35.25" x 27"; view: 25.5 x 17.5")
SOLD
492-197
Painting, Willow Valley, Woodstock Township, New York, Kotzbauer
Early 20th Century, Signed at lower left, J.B. Kotzbauer (German American artist)
Oil on pressboard - SOLD
(Frame: 13.5 by 11”, sight-size: 12 by 9”)
360-8 - SOLD
Pastel on Marble Dust Painting, Architectural, American House and Environs
Anonymous, 19th Century
A pleasing composition of linear perspective - SOLD
Pastel on paper (marble dust) Frame: 26.5” by 21.5”; view: 22.5” by 17.5”
210-254 - SOLD
Folksy Farm Scene, House, Barns, Orchard, Fenced Pasture, Cattle
Anonymous, Late 19th Century; Queen Anne Style Architecture
Graphite, watercolor and crayon pencil - SOLD
A tidy farm environ, the farmer driving his hay wagon pulled by a team of horses; a dog and his companion stroll towards the brook.
(The period oak frame measures: 35 by 28”, sight-size: 28 by 21.5”)
928-73 - SOLD
Painting, Mountain Landscape & Castle, Thomas Chambers, Folk Art (1808 to 1866)
New York, Circa (1833 to 1860)
Rhythmic shapes, bold colors and strong contours - SOLD
(Tiny puncture at lower right was expertly restored, else fine; gold gilt frame is period although not original; frame: 27 by 21", sight-size: 23 by 17")
659-47 - SOLD
Painting, Folk Art, Farm Landscape, Watercolor, West Bend
Anonymous, 19th Century
A detailed and folksy country view - SOLD
(Couple tight tears at lower right and left extremities; 20.5 by 14.25" overall)
216-492 - SOLD
Painting, Mountainous Camp Scene, Tents on Mountainside
Anonymous
Oil on Canvas - SOLD
(Frame: 38.5 by 28.5", sight-size: 34.5 by 24.5")
1062-4 - SOLD
Painting, Ink, Freehand and Stencil, Blow Tube Technique
Probably New York
19th Century - SOLD
Stenciled cathedral, stag and cottage within stenciled hillocks; clouds and freehand trees - the foliage created by spreading ink with a small mouth-pipe; bark and hillocks in foreground done by hand. The work remaining in very good condition with even toning, having minor foxing, is mounted within a black painted frame; not examined out of frame. (Frame: 13.75 by 11.25"; view: 8.5 by 11")
532-27 - SOLD
Watercolors, Pair, Landscape, one: Man Walking Dog, the other: Boy Fishing
By Adrian Livingston
1895 and 1896 - SOLD
The works are mounted within carved and gessoed gilt frames; excellent condition, save for water stain on one mat.
(Frame: 35.5 by 23.75"; view: 31.25 by 19")
1020-5 - SOLD
American School, Oil on Canvas Painting, Hudson River School, Landscape
Perhaps West Point looking north with Storm King Mountain in the distance
Anonymous
19th Century - SOLD
Hudson River view with sailing boats, steamer, landscape
Original frame and stretcher, minor scattered fill, (Frame: 23 by 31"; view: 16 by 24")
1020-20 - SOLD
New Hampshire Rapids
Oil on Canvas - SOLD
The frame measures 28 by 22-inches, while the view area measures 22.5 by 16.5-inches.
144-21 - SOLD
New England Winter Scene
Oil on canvas
Late 19th Century - SOLD
As depicted, old woman with burden of firewood, homestead; village and mountains in background. The work is mounted within original gilt frame and remains on original stretcher, all else fine.
Dimensions: 22.5 by 19.5-inch frame, 18.5 by 15.5-inch sight-size.
903-39 - SOLD
Castle Garden Painting, Folk Art
Anonymous
19th Century - SOLD
Oil on canvas, original stretcher, mounted within original gilt frame
No restoration; Frame: 25.5 by 35.5"; view: 21.5 by 31.5"
659-16 - SOLD
EDWARD KRANICK, A Man, Boy, and Dog Overlooking the View of Morristown NJ
Morristown, New Jersey
1852
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower right Edward Kranick 1852 - SOLD
A German-born painter active in New Jersey after 1849, executed this tranquil oil on canvas, depicting a (hunter?) man, a boy, and a dog overlooking the view of Morristown.
Excellent original condition, Ex Kennedy galleries.
25.5 by 35"
216-429 - SOLD
Painting, New England Farm Scene
Nineteenth Century
Anonymous
Oil on Canvas - SOLD
An idyllic folksy farm scene with flowering trees, cows at feeding trough; stone fence with split-rail gate, and farmer walking to post-and-beam barn. The work is stretched tightly on early stretcher and is mounted within red painted frame.
Dimensions: 16.25 by 21" frame, 12.5 by 17.25" sight-size.
191-332 - SOLD
Painting, View of Massachusetts State Prison at Noon
Avery and Dwight Artists
Charlestown, Massachusetts
1886 - SOLD
Oil on canvas, (35 by 50-inches.)
Depicted is a scene of the West Yard of the prison; painting is inscribed "Avery & Dwight Artists" and bears the title and names of prison officials within ribbon along the bottom. The prison, located at Lyndes' Point popularly called Charlestown prison was designed by Charles Bullfinch and was built in 1805. This maximum-security facility served New England for 150-years until being mostly demolished in 1955. Housed within the walls were criminals, many of them very famous; paupers and debtors, and the insane. The picture depicts prisoners in neat formation with officials keeping watch. The work has been cleaned and relined; moderate in-paint.
216-391 - SOLD
Painting, Farm Scene, New England
Purportedly Worcester County
Signed B.V. Brooks
1895 - SOLD
Oil on canvas, fine condition
View area: 36 by 24".
956-2 - SOLD
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