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1836 HUDSON RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL LANDSCAPE J.R SMITH,JR browse these categories for related items... Directory: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American:Pre 1837 VR: item # 729724 Please refer to our stock # JohnRSmith when inquiring.
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| This lovely oil on canvas landscape painting signed and dated 1836 by John Rowson Smith (American, 1810-1864) is a prime example of the Hudson River Valley Style. This painting is very similar to examples found in John K. Howat’s "The Hudson River and Its Painters," The Viking Press. The Hudson River School was America’s first homegrown, coherent and sizable group of landscape artists. From the 1820s, it occupied the center of the national art stage until it began to fade in the 1870s and 1880s. This scenic and panorama artist, sometimes called J. R. Smith, Jr., was born in Boston in 1810, the son of John Rubens Smith. He studied with his father in Brooklyn and in Philadelphia, and worked after 1832 as a scene painter in Philadelphia, New Orleans, St. Louis and other cities. Toward the end of the 1830s he took up panorama painting and in 1844 completed a panorama of the Misssissippi which was exhibited successfully in this country and in Europe. After his European tour in 1848, Smith made his home on a farm in Carlstadt, NJ, but continued to paint scenery for theatres in NYC and elsewhere, especially in the South, until his death in Philadelphia on March 21, 1864. The artist is listed in "The New York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America" by George C. Croce and David H. Wallace. Dimensions: 25 x 20 inches, sight dize; 32-1/2 x 37-3/4 inches in what looks to be the original gilded frame. Fine condition. | |||||||||||||||
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