16" x 24" oil on canvas, signed lower left. Bio from askart.com:Walter Francis Brown was a painter and illustrator whose specialty was scenes of Venice, his adopted home. He studied at Brown University and in Paris with Jean Leon Gerome.
His work can be found at the Hay Library in Providence, Rhode Island. He was an illustrator for 'A Tramp Abroad', by Mark Twain, and 'Roger Williams', by Charles Miller.
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Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art" ...click for details
10" x 8" oval painting, signed and dated 1860--finely detailed painting in a later maple frame with gild spandrel. Frame dimensions: 15 1/4" x 13.5"--the frame could be changed to an oval frame of the period. Bio from ask art.com: Anna Eliza Hardy, the daughter of the artist Jeremiah Pearson Hardy and Catherine Sears Wheeler Hardy was born Jan. 26, 1839 in Bangor Maine. Anna Eliza, or Annie as she was known, was the only daughter and youngest of four children. Hardy's ...click for details
Oil on canvas, on the original stretcher, unlined. Signed lower right. Bio from Ask art.com: Wesley Webber was born in Gardiner, Maine and became interested in art at an early age. About 1858 he went to Boston and was apprenticed for three years to J.C. Roberts of Haymarket Square, an ornamental sign and carriage painter. Webber entered the Sixteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment in July 1862 and was reportedly the only artist on hand at the surrender of Lee's forces at Appomattox. He ...click for details
Oil on heavy artist board, signed lower left and dated lower right 1920. 11" x 8.5"
Bio from askart.com:Born near Newark, New Jersey, Louis Eilshemius was an eccentric artist with a vision of his own that conformed to no school or tradition of painting. He referred to himself as the "Grand Parnassian and Transcendental Eagle of the Arts" (Falk).
He lived in Europe from 1873 to 1881, attended Cornell University and the Art Students League in New York, and from 1886 to 18 ...click for details
Drawing, black chalk on paper, approx. 18" x 12"--signed lower right. Bio from askart.com::Born in Philadelphia, Margaret Pearson had childhood polio that confined her to a wheel chair, but she overcame that condition to have a distinguished career as a painter of exquisite interior scenes, figures and still life.
She studied with William James and Frederick Bosley at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and studied figure painting with Edmund Tarbell. In 1941, she moved to Rockpo ...click for details
17" x 21" oil on canvas, signed lower left. Price pending frame. From ask art.com: Max Weyl was born in Muhlen-am-Neckar, Germany and came to Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1853 before moving to Washington in 1861.
Please note: the above correction to Weyl's biography was submitted by his great-grandson Christopher Wolf, March 2006.
The story of Max Weyl's life includes his evolution from a watchmaker too shy to hang his paintings in his own shop window, to finally ...click for details
Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon (Portrait & Landscape painter, lithographer) b.1830 d. 1906, Boston.
Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon studied with Benjamin Champney in Boston and later with Samuel Rouse in New York City. Though known primarily for his landscapes, Hodgdon also taught life classes at both the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Art Club. He exhibited at the Boston Art Club, the National Academy of Design, and the Brooklyn Art Association. Hodgdon was known to have painted througho ...click for details
20" x 36" oil on canvas, signed lower left. Catskill mountain view. Charles A. Sommer exhibited at the National Academy from 1863-1871, including a few views of the Catskill mountains, while maintaining a studio address in NYC. This landscape is circa 1865-70.
Oil on canvas, 18" x 30" and 27.5" x 39" in the original frame. This is a NY view, likely in the Hamptons. Signed lower left. From askart.com:he following is submitted by Cornelia C Moynihan, who took her information from "Who Was Who in American Art" by Peter Falk:
Andrew Fisher Bunner ANA 1841-1897
Andrew Fisher Bunner was born in 1841 in New York City, and he studied there and in Europe. In fact, his career included extended travels in France, Holland, G ...click for details
