Painting

Title:

Mount Washington and North Conway, N.H.

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1986.092

Creator:

Church, Frederic Edwin (1826-1900)Artist

Date:

circa 1856

Description:

Landscape painting, Mount Washington and North Conway, N.H., attributed to Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), c. 1856. Oil on canvas. Rocky foreground with trees right. Two figures and sheep stand in a field middle ground center; brown building middle ground center; woods and fields beyond. Small village background right; snow-capped mountains and blue sky. Unsigned. Gilded gesso over wood frame with large carved leaf at corners.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-13.75 W-20 inches

Provenance:

Painting was a wedding present from Frederic E. Church to Lucretia Titus on her wedding to William Harman Brown, April 12, 1860. Lucretia T. Brown left the painting to her daughter, Lydia Raymond, wife of Henry Metcalfe Fiske. Lydia Raymond Fiske gave the painting to her nephew Abbott Harman Brown. Abbott Harman Brown left the painting to his wife, Louisa S. Brown, who sold it to Kennedy Galleries in 1972. The donor, Catherine H. Campbell, purchased it from Kennedy Galleries in 1978. The painting was formerly entitled "A Catskill Landscape." See object folder. Kennedy Galleries, Inc. label on the reverse.

Credit Line:

Gift of Catherine H. Campbell, in memory of Crawford J. Campbell

People:

Church, Frederic E. (1826-1900), Brown, Lydia T. (1836-1922), Fiske, Lydia R. (1875-1970), Brown, Abbott H. (1903-1966), Brown, Louisa S., Campbell, Catherine H. (1916-1989)

Subjects:

Intervale, NH, North Conway, NH, White Mountains, Landscape paintings, Mount Washington