Painting

Title:

Sportsman By a Lake

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1989.046.04

Creator:

Doughty, Thomas (1791-1856)Artist

Date:

1835

Description:

Painting, landscape, "Sportsman By a Lake", by Thomas Doughty (1791-1856), 1835. Oil on canvas. Waterfall surrounded by rocks and trees in the foreground. A figure with a brown jacket, holding a gun, looks out from a rock ledge toward a lake. Large lake in the middle ground center; figure wearing red in a boat on the lake. Forests and mountains in the background; notch visible center background; billowy clouds in the sky. Title on Vose Galleries label on back: "Sportsman By a Lake". Signed lower right, "T. DOUGHTY / 1835". Gilded gesso over wood frame with reeded exterior molding; foliate and scrolls at the corners.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-20 W-24 inches

Provenance:

Typewritten label on stretcher: "This painting by Doughty and dated 1835 belonged to Ephraim Murdock of Winchendon. He was the husband of Sophia Morse. She was the sister of Susan Morse and Eliza Morse, the mother of Asahel M. Shurtleff. This painting came to Gertrude H. Shurtleff from Susan and then to Alice W. Shurcliff (sic), who in 1954 had the picture cleaned and revarnished."

Acquired by Mrs. Campbell from Vose Galleries. Given to NHHS two weeks before Mrs. Campbell died although listed as a bequest in her will. Given with three other White Mountain landscapes. A fifth painting (1990.1.1), by Russell Smith, was bequeathed and received after her death.

Credit Line:

Gift of Catherine H. Campbell

People:

Campbell, Catherine H. (1916-1989), Morse, Eliza, Morse, Sophia, Morse, Susan, Murdock, Ephraim (1800-1882), Shurcliff, Alice W., Shurtleff, Asahel M., Doughty, Thomas (1791-1856)

Subjects:

Crawford Notch, Hunter, Lake, Mountains, Rowboat, Waterfall, White Mountains, Landscape paintings