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DR. EDWARD RUGGLES "GEMS" O/B SEA SCAPE #2 of 2 browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1900: item # 701853 Please refer to our stock # lbk956 when inquiring.
Longbrook Antiques Stratford, Connecticut 06614 (203)377-5154 Guest Book $2,500.00 *PAIR see #701847 (stock #lbk955) |
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| We very proudly offer this *PAIR* of Dr. Eward Ruggles (1817-1867) Oil on Paper/Board Seascape and Riverscape paintings. We are not Fine Art Experts but do feel that this pair of Oil Paintings on Paper/Board are an exceptional opportunity for any true Dealer or Collector in 19th Century American Fine Art Paintings. To view both items please be sure to see item 701847 lbk955 The painting of this *PAIR* is inscribed on the reverse "ON THE DELAWARE RUGGLES" (see images of back and signature) by the decorated and documented Artist/Physician Dr. Edward Ruggles (1817-1867) . The image shows what we believe is the Delaware River/Water Gap on the East Coast of the U.S. somewhere between New Jersey and Delaware/Pennsylvania The painting itself is an Oil on Paper/Board & measures 7 1/8" X 5 1/8" while the frame measures 10 7/8" X 8 7/8". The original Gold painted sand finished frame is line with a worn Brown velvet and Gold finished liner (worn a bit). The second painting of this *PAIR* is an absolutely beautiful and crisply painted Oil on Paper/Board and is unsigned and attributed to "Dr. Edward Ruggles." This wonderful Sea scape painting is in a matching frame and from the same estate as the signed and titled Oil on Paper/Board which is being offered as the mate to this painting. This stunning and crisp Oil Painting on Paper/Board displays 2 Fisherman upon a small boat on stormy seas. Several sailing ships are visible in the distance. This item is in its original frame (which also matches the frame on the Signed and Titled Ruggles O/B mate painting). This painting measures 7 1/8" X 5 1/8" while the frame measures 10 7/8" X 8 7/8". The original Gold painted sand finished frame is lined with a somewhat worn Brown Velvet and Gold finished liner. The upper left corner of this painting has a small area with a pressure fracture to the surface of the paint which does not appear to go through to the back of the board as seen in our close up image which is highly magnified. This painting is in original wonderful condition and does appear to be in very good overall condition. We have not removed the paintings from their frames to inspect and search for additional possible signatures, dates etc. We will leave this to the discretion of the new owner of this fantastic *PAIR* of RUGGLES GEMS! These painting appear to us to be in untouched wonderful condition and does to be in very good overall condition. There is very strong and fully documented relations between WALT WHITMAN and DR. EDWARD RUGGLES and his paintings and the following was taken from the internet as just one such documented correspondence; Ruggles, Edward Dr. (1817-1867) Physician, Artist. Dr. Edward Ruggles was a friend of the Whitman family who was an "eccentric physician and painter in Brooklyn" (G. W. Allen 323). Ruggles earned his medical degree at Bowdoin College sometime around 1840. At some point, he gave up his medical career and devoted himself to painting. His "cabinet pictures" were known as "Ruggle Gems" and they "were greatly in demand at the time of his death, though apparently other artists were contemptuous of them. Many thought him eccentric, and apparently some found him unpleasant: ’For the shams and phariseeisms of life he had no sympathy and not much charity; and he did not hesitate to say what he thought for fear of consequences. To say things which run counter to common prejudices is not to court popularity; and it may be that Dr. Ruggles sometimes gained disfavor by such a course without securing any compensating advantage’" (G. W. Allen 323-24). Gay Allen suggests that "[h]e sounds very much in some ways like Walt Whitman himself" (380). A. L. Rawson describes Ruggles as a friend of Ada Clare, which does not place him at Pfaff’s proper, but does suggest that he spent time at Clare’s 42nd Street home where many Bohemians were known to gather. Also from the internet; Dr. Edward Ruggles (? - c. 1866) Ruggles, a physician, was active during the period 1848 to 1865. He was an "amateur" painter, since he was made an honorary member of the National Academy of Design from 1851 to 1860. He was elected to the Century Association in 1848 (and apparently resigned in 1851). He exhibited at the National Academy and the American Art Union from 1851 to 1860. Prang lithographic firm of Boston published nine of his New Hampshire views, titled RUGGLES' GEMS. One of the chromolithographs was titled Mount Washington (see Ruggles' Gems, page 153). Another painting titled White Mountains was sold at a Leonard Auction in 1863. | ||
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