Hudson River Views Art Auction Ending 2/16

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Attributed to Daniel Charles Grose (1838-1900). Note: See image of 2003 Fair Market Value Appraisal. Partial AskArt Bio: Likely born in England, Daniel Grose lived in Canada in the 1860s and in Washington DC in the 1870s and 1880s.  His uncle was English landscape painter Francis Grose, and it is thought that Daniel settled in Canada because so many of his romantic landscapes are in Canadian museums. Judging by his subject matter of the 1860s to 1880s, he also painted in Maine, the Hudson River Valley, the Rocky Mountains, California including Yosemite, and Connecticut.  His wife was artist Estelle Grose, with whom he toured around the world for five years. He died on February 24, 1900 at his wife's mother's home in Arlington, Virginia. Source: Peter Hastings Falk (ed.), Who Was Who in American Art. Peggy and Harold Samuels, Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West Obituary, Washington Post, Feb.25, 1900. Estimate: $2,000-$6,000.

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Framed oil on canvas. Sight: 15x9.5”. Overall: 19.5x14”. Wonderful subject matter. Estimate: $2,000-$4,000.

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Framed oil on canvas. Sight: 23.75x19.75”. Overall: 27.5x23.5”. Partial AskArt Bio: Growing up in Chicago, Annie Shaw, painter, etcher and art teacher, became in 1874 at age 22, the first woman to open an art studio in Chicago.  She showed early art talent indicated by her winning an award for pencil drawing at age twelve.  From 1868 to 1872, she studied with Henry Chapman Ford, and two years later opened her studio.  She traveled throughout the country, doing plein-aire painting, and also established a reputation for excellent teaching at the Chicago Academy of Design, predecessor of the Art Institute.  In 1876, Shaw was elected to full membership of the Academy, the first women to achieve that distinction.  It is thought that she learned etching from John Vanderpoel at the Chicago Academy of Design when she was a student. Between 1881 and 1884, she had a studio in New York City, and from 1884 to 1885 in Boston.  "A solo exhibition and sale held at the Art Institute of Chicago after her death included 241 oil paintings and 50 watercolors; of which very few can be found today.  None of her etchings are presently located." Exhibition venues include Illinois State Fair, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, National Academy of Design, Bohemian Art Club in Chicago, Salmagundi Club, American Watercolor Society, Society of American Artists, Providence Art Club, Chicago Inter-State Industrial, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Boston Art Club, and Art Institute of Chicago. Source: Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art. Jean S. Hunt, Walking With Women Through Chicago History II. Note: Most 19thC women landscape artists signed only with their initials so as to disguise their gender from the buying public. Annie was one of the few accomplished women artists who signed her full name. Estimate: $4,000-$8,000.

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Framed oil on canvas. Sight: 17x25”. Overall: 27x35”. A.P. Close was a young, established book illustrator who opted to travel with artist Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) of Boston to the Middle East in 1871. Close became ill in Beirut with a fever. He died and was buried there.. His promising career was cut short. Included with this rare painting is a reprint of an 1869 book illustrated by Close: “White And Red, A Narrative of Life Among The Northwest Indians.”

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Framed oil on canvas. Partial AskArt Bio: Edmund Darch Lewis was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prominent businessman. According to family tradition he was educated at a private school and studied painting with the German-born landscapist Paul Weber (1823-1916).  He first exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1854, where he was elected an associate in 1859 and a full Academician in 1862.  He also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1858 to 1869, and the National Academy of Design in New York in 1860. Lewis never married and lived a comfortable existence with his parents up to the age of fifty.  The large, detailed, and romantic landscapes that he painted between 1860 and 1876 reflect the influence of his famous contemporaries Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) and Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).  Lewis was a prolific artist whose views of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England were avidly collected by Philadelphia art patrons, and by the early 1880s he had amassed a fortune.  He devoted the last thirty years of his life to amassing a huge collection of fine and decorative arts that he displayed in his sumptuously furnished townhouse on 526 South 22nd Street. Lewis exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1854-69) and was elected an associate of the Academy in 1859. He also showed at the National Academy of Design in New York (1860), the Boston Athenaeum (1858-69), and the Brooklyn Art Association (1862-70). Lewis's work is in several public collections including the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York; and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Auction Record: $92,500. $15,000-$25,000.

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Framed oil on canvas signed in monogram. Partial AskArt Bio: Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Thomas Rossiter began his career as a portrait artist but also did historical and religious genre and Hudson River landscapes including Niagara Falls, influenced by his good friends, Thomas Cole, Asher Durand and John Kensett. He opened a studio in New Haven in 1838, and the next year in Troy, New York.  From 1840 to 1846, he was in Europe, traveling part of the time with Durand, Kensett, Cole and John Casilear.  Upon his return he settled in New York and shared a studio with Kensett and Louis Lang and earned his living from portraits.  However, his religious paintings received attention as two of them toured the United States: Miriam and Rebecca at the Wall. From 1853 to 1856, he lived in Paris, and then returned to New York to devote himself to history and religious paintings.  In 1860, he built a home and studio in Cold Spring, on the Hudson River, and lived there until his death. Source: Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art. Auction Record: $104,500. Estimate: $3,000-$7,000.

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Partial AskArt Bio: Charles Chapin had studios in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  Appearing to change locations continually, he had an itinerant career as an illustrator, art teacher and painter of portraits and landscapes in oil and watercolor. Chapin painted landscapes that reflect the drama and emotional expression characteristic of 19th-century landscape painting, especially the excitement over natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon and scenes in the Adirondack Mountains. He was also noted for his portrait of Polish actress Helena Modjeska , posed when she played the role of Mary Queen of Scots.  In New Orleans he did Creole subjects. He was a founder of the Lotus Club* in New York City, and then headed to California, where he was in San Francisco from 1876 to 1877 and exhibited with the San Francisco Art Association.  After that he went to the southern United States. From 1882 to 1885, he was active in New Orleans, listing himself as a portrait and landscape painter and "teacher of painting". (Mahe 73)  In 1882 and 1883, he spent summers in New Orleans, but was there most of the year during 1884 and 1885. In the 1880s, Chapin also painted southern Florida scenes on several winter visits to Florida where he focused primarily on the central and southern Gulf coast including the Everglades. Many persons, not knowing of his time in Florida, have mistakenly identified the location of those paintings as Louisiana, but they are distinctive from his Louisiana paintings in that the tropical foliage depicted would not grow in Louisiana.  The Florida views date almost exclusively from the 1880's. (Arnold) By 1887, he had moved to Los Angeles. Charles Chapin was an illustrator of Civil War scenes for Harper's Weekly in 1864, and also painted in Arizona.  One work by him of the Grand Canyon is dated 1886 and titled Lower Falls, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.  It is in the collection of the First National Bank of Chicago. In December 1888, Chapin disappeared, and in March 1889 a body identified as his was recovered from the North River in the Adirondack region of upstate New York. Auction Record: $12,320. Estimate: $2,000-$6,000.

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Framed oil on board. Sight: 11.5x6.5”. Overall: 20x15”. Partial AskArt Bio: George Lafayette Clough was born September 18, 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's leading landscapist and, known as a Hudson River School painter, became Auburn's most noted resident painter of the mid-century.  His mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal influence.  He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten.  By age fifteen he had taken up painting, and his first and informal art influence came from the portraitist, Randall Palmer. In 1844 Clough opened his own studio in Auburn.  About that time Charles Loring Elliott came to Auburn to paint a portrait of William Henry Seward, a local statesman, and chose Clough's studio for that purpose.  Elliott became Clough's teacher, and in 1847, he began formal study for several months in Elliott's New York City studio.  He returned to Auburn from that experience a competent professional portraitist.  Two of his portraits were exhibited at the National Academy of Design the following year.  He married and briefly shared a studio in Auburn with Joseph Meeker. In the early 1850's, he traveled to France, Holland, Italy, and Germany to study. While in each location, Clough would study the local painting traditions and copy some of their works, a common custom of American artists. Upon return to the United States, his efforts concentrated primarily on landscapes. His favorite locales included the Adirondacks, and the woodland areas of upper New York State, Pennsylvania, New England, and Eastern Ohio. When he moved to Cleveland about 1862, Clough began painting urban views. Spending most of the 1880's in the New York City area, he became involved in the Brooklyn Art Association. Source: Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art, p. 208. Auction Record: $37,200. Estimate: $2,000-$6,000.

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Framed oil on canvas. Sight: 26x36”. Overall: 32x42”. Estimate: $4,000-$7,000.

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Framed oil on board. The four-masted schooner Hope Sherwood launched in 1903, it was 172.8 feet long and had a breadth of 36.6 feet. Info: https://provlibdigital.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A10187?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=d381f2c7fc5cc232a172&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=3&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=2 . Partial AskArt Bio: Antonio Jacobsen, America's folk art hero recognized for his unsurpassed contributions to America's maritime history, recorded domestic and international ships as they passed through the age of sail to steam. He was a prolific painter and throughout his life painted an estimated 6000 paintings. Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 November 1850, where, for generations his family had been violin makers. His father encouraged him to practice a similar craft. At an early age he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Design in Copenhagen, however, reversed family fortunes forced him to withdraw. At the age 18 it was compulsory for him to join the Danish military forces, but he decided instead, to sail for America. He left his family behind and arrived in New York in the early 1870's. Like many other immigrants, he went to New York City's Battery Park looking for work. He passed his days sketching the ships that sailed in and out of the harbor. Not before long a representative from Marvin Safe Company noticed his drawings and offered him a job decorating safes. His ability as an artist was further recognized as he began to receive commissions from sea captains and ship owners and eventually Steamship companies, to record their entire fleet. The Old Dominion Line, The Fall River Line and The White Star Line are some of the steamship companies that commissioned him to paint portraits of all the ship in their respective fleets. In addition, the Clyde Line, the Black Ball Line and the Mallory Line, the Anchor Line and Red Star Lines also sought his services. The notoriety that Jacobsen received from all these commissions helped establish him as the foremost chronicler of American shipping in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1878, he married Mary Melania Schmidt. The couple established residence, combining their working and living space, in New York City at 257 Eight Ave. Three children were born to the couple: Carl Ferdinand, Helen and Alphonse. Both of Jacobsen's sons were competent painters. In 1880, with Jacobsen's increasing prosperity, the couple was able to move to a beautiful house in Hoboken, New Jersey. This home became a mecca for seafarers and artists as well. On Sundays, Jacobsen would arrange concerts, at his house, of him and his friends playing chamber music or string quartets. Several of the artists that visited include Fred Pansing (well-known ship painter at the time), James Buttersworth (painter of yacht pictures), F. Bishop (marine artist from New Haven), and Frederick Cozzens (Staten Island artist, who specialized in harbor scenes). Jacobsen's work was sought after in his day, and if he was short of funds, he had no trouble finding commissions. At a time when a certified public accountant was earning forty or fifty dollars a week, Jacobsen earned $150 to $200 with little effort. When lithographs became popular, however, orders for Jacobsen's paintings dwindled and he refused any attempt to commercialize his paintings. As the years passed, Jacobsen's style became more progressive; he depended less on commissions and more on his own creativity. His rigid style softened and he painted imaginative marine works including racing scenes, shipwrecks and some ocean views. Works by Jacobsen can be seen in most major collections of maritime art including the: Peabody Museum, Salem, MA.; The Mariners Museum, Newport News, VA. Auction Record: $224,500. Estimate: $5,000-$15,000.

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Partial AskArt Bio: A landscape, portrait, marine and history painter, Edmund C. Coates lived in New York City during his active period 1837-1872. Brooklyn and New York City directories from those years list him as Edward, Edmund C., E.C. Coates, and E.G. Coates. His paintings include landscapes of Canada and Italy although it is not known if the artist traveled to those countries or if other works inspired the scenes. He also painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and, listed as one of the Hudson River School painters, did numerous Hudson River Valley scenes such as Shipping on the Hudson River, 1855. His painting titled Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, 1867, depicted a popular scene among the Hudson River painters because it was George Washington's headquarters painted against the backdrop of Storm Mountain near the town of Newburgh. (Note: Reference is to this painting). Collections holding work by Coates include the New York Historical Society, the New York State Historical Association and the Shelburne Museum. Sources include: A Century of American Landscapes 1812-1912, Frank S. Schwarz and Son, Philadelphia, 1986. Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art. John Howat, The Hudson River and Its Painters. Top Auction Record: $40,250. Estimate: $6,000 - $12,000.

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Framed oil on canvas. Partial AskArt Bio: A painter, sculptor, writer, and teacher, John Weir was a highly talented man whose painting was overshadowed by his father, Robert Weir, the long-time West Point Academy drawing teacher, and his brother, J Alden Weir, well-known impressionist painter. His distinguished reputation was primarily based on his accomplishments as a teacher and administrator. For many years, from 1869 to 1913, John Weir was the Director of the Yale University School of Fine Arts. He was also a commissioner of the art exhibition at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Weir was born at West Point, New York, and by age 20, had a studio in New York City in the Tenth Street Studio Building, the first building in America dedicated to art studios, and there he associated with many leading painters of the day. He earned attention early in his career for paintings of industrial scenes, some of the earliest in American art history. Examples are "The Gun Foundry," 1866 in the Putnam County, New York Historical Society, and "Forging the Shaft," of 1867, which was subsequently destroyed. He did them in monumental sizes with much chiaroscuro (contrasting light and dark) effect, showing labor figures in the fiery glow of furnaces. He spent a year in Europe, painting panoramic landscapes, and then returned to New Haven, Connecticut to become associated with its School of Fine Arts. Much of the remainder of his painting was impressionist in style and depicted quiet landscapes, especially of the Hudson River region. These pieces, unlike his industrial scenes, did not much distinguish him from the numerous other painters doing the same style and similar subject matter. He also painted portraits including that of Yale president Theodore Dwight Woolsey and Benjamin Silliman, a professor. Weir died in Providence, Rhode Island in 1926. Source: "300 Years of American Art" by Michael David Zellman, and "Dictionary of American Art" by Matthew Baigell. Auction Record: $88,000. Estimate: $3,000-$6,000.

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C-1840/50 this painting has an expansive View looking northeast from west shore having a single observing figure. Note: the artist was not familiar with the varying depths of the Hudson or he/she would not have placed the steamboat along the inside of Pollepel Island in this composition. Even at high tide, the steamboat would have great difficulty navigating in the shallows found in that area. This is the only View from this vantage point that I have ever seen. Rare and early. Estimate: $3,000-$5,000.

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Sight: 17.5x13.5”. Overall: 23x19”. Partial AskArt Bio: William Hart is a formidable Hudson River School artist who painted portraits, landscapes, allegorical and genre paintings. He was born in Paisley, Scotland on March 31, 1823, five years before his brother and fellow painter James Hart (1828-1901).  The Harts moved to Albany, New York in 1831.  William apprenticed to a carriage maker, but by the time he was 18 he turned to portrait painting. In 1840, he began to travel across the country painting landscapes, and by 1845 he had painted in Troy, New York; Richmond, Virginia; and in Michigan, where he spent three years.  After a brief trip to Scotland, he returned to Albany in 1847 and opened a studio in New York City in 1854. Hart painted Peace and Plenty the following year.  In 1855, he was elected an Associate of the National Academy after having established his reputation as a fine landscape painter with Peace and Plenty.  In 1858, he was elected a Full Member of National Academy of Design in New York City, and in 1865, was a founder and President of the American Water Color Society from 1870 to 1873. He was a frequent exhibitor in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Washington.  His last years were spent in Mt. Vernon, New York, where he died on June 17, 1894.  His work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and in many other museums and institutions. Source: Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Art Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art. Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art. Auction Record: $134,500. Estimate: $4,000-$8,000.

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Chillon Castle has a rich history and is an historic site today that can still be visited. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillon_Castle Estimate: $500-$2,000.

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Sight: 21.5x33”. Overall: 29x40.5”. Estimate: $1,000-$3,000.

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Framed oil on canvas. Partial AskArt Bio: Edmund Darch Lewis was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prominent businessman. According to family tradition he was educated at a private school and studied painting with the German-born landscapist Paul Weber (1823-1916).  He first exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1854, where he was elected an associate in 1859 and a full Academician in 1862.  He also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1858 to 1869, and the National Academy of Design in New York in 1860. Lewis never married and lived a comfortable existence with his parents up to the age of fifty.  The large, detailed, and romantic landscapes that he painted between 1860 and 1876 reflect the influence of his famous contemporaries Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) and Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).  Lewis was a prolific artist whose views of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England were avidly collected by Philadelphia art patrons, and by the early 1880s he had amassed a fortune.  He devoted the last thirty years of his life to amassing a huge collection of fine and decorative arts that he displayed in his sumptuously furnished townhouse on 526 South 22nd Street. Lewis exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1854-69) and was elected an associate of the Academy in 1859. He also showed at the National Academy of Design in New York (1860), the Boston Athenaeum (1858-69), and the Brooklyn Art Association (1862-70). Lewis's work is in several public collections including the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York; and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Auction Record: $92,500. $3,000-$7,000.

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Partial AskArt Bio: Henry Boese is known for his early Hudson River landscapes, and portrait work in New York City, 1844 - 1863. Mr. Boese exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1847, 1857, 1859, and in 1863, he showed the painting "Scene on the Mohawk", NAD, v 1, no.69, p. 72. Listed National Academy of Design. The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564 - 1860. His works are quite rare. Auction Record: $26,290. Estimate: $5,000-$10,000.

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Sight: 19x35”. Overall: 28x44”. Little is known about this talented artist. AskArt: R Wentworth (19th Century) was active/lived in United States.  R Wentworth is known for Painting. Estimate: $6,000-$12,000.

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Framed oil on canvas. Sight: 13x24”. Overall: 23x33.5”. Partial AskArt Bio: Norton Bush was born in Rochester, New York and took his first art instruction from James Harris, a local artist. He also studied with Jasper Cropsey in New York City and associated with Frederic Church, both Hudson River School painters whose style continued to influence Bush. Many of his paintings were done with the goal of inspiring the viewer with the overwhelming aspects of nature and the diminished relative position of human beings. In 1853, when Bush first traveled to California, he traveled through the Isthmus of Panama and reportedly through the jungles of Nicaragua. William Ralston was a San Francisco banker and paid Bush to paint scenes related to Ralston's business interests in Central America. For Henry Meiggs, Bush did paintings depicting a railroad whose building he had overseen in the Andes Mountains. From 1878 to 1880, Bush was the Director of the San Francisco Art Association. He also became art director of the California section of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. However, this effort was overly taxing on his health, and he had a fatal heart attack in Oakland on April 24, 1894. Sources: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art". Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940". Michael David Zellman, "300 Years of American Art". Auction Record: $58,500. Estimate: $15,000-$25,000.