Reverse painting on glass in the original frame, inscribed by Prior on backboard, 29" x 22" in the frame. From Askart.com: Born in Bath, Maine, William Prior became an itinerant portrait and landscape painter who also painted on glass. In 1841, he settled in Boston after traveling and painting widely for ten years around New England. In 1824, he had been in Portland, Maine and lived there from 1831 to 1840. He advertised in the "Maine Inquirer" in 1831 that "persons wh ...click for details
Oil on canvas, in the original gilt frame, signed lower left. 20" x 30" and 28" x 38" framed. From Askart.com: Known as a painter of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Samuel Griggs was listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852, and as an artist from 1854 until his death. The competency of his work strongly suggests that he had professional training, and it is believed that he studied under Albert Bierstadt before Bierstadt was well known.
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Oil on canvas, 60" x 36" oil on canvas, signed lower left. We do not know the identity of this elegant lady--very Chase like since the artists was close to Wm. Merrit Chase and his Chase painted the artist's portrait, From AskArt.com: Louis Betts was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His art instruction came primarily from his father who was also a painter. At sixteen, he did his first portrait of his violin master in exchange for lessons, and Betts focused primarily on landscape ...click for details
Oil on artist board, 11" x 14.5" and in the original frame, 13.5" x 16.5"--signed lower left and also signed verso and with title: "A Lane in Holland"--Emma L. Cooper was the wife of Colin Campbell Cooper. Biography from Ask Art: Born in Nunda, New York, Emma Lampert Cooper was known as a brilliant colorist of landscape painting. She studied at Wells College, Cooper Union Art School and the Art Students League with Agnes Abbatt and William Merritt Chase.
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Canvas: 24" x 30" Framed: 32" x 38" Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Custom molding.
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FRANKLIN BENJAMIN DEHAVEN, N.A. (1856-1934)
Based on his birth certificate, Franklin B. DeHaven was actually born Benjamin Franklin DeHaven in Bluffton, Indiana on December 26,1856. DeHaven later arrived in New York City in 1886. He became a student of George Henry Smillie who, having made a reputation as a poetic landscape painte ...click for details
22" x 36" Oil on canvas, lined. Signed lower right, dated 5.82.
Frank Hector Tompkins studied in New York and Cincinnati and was a regular exhibitor at the National Academy of Design, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and other East coast museums.
22" x 36" Oil on canvas seascape painting, unlined. Signed lower left on the rock.
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Lemuel D. Eldred (American, 1850-1921)
Marine painter and etcher Lemuel D. Eldred was born and raised in Fairhaven, Massachusetts near New Bedford’s whaling community. He studied for a short time at the Academie Julian in Paris (1880) and traveled throughout Europe (1883) but he claimed he was self-taught. He exhibited in Boston and at the National Academ ...click for details
