Lot 21
  • 21

Frederic Edwin Church 1826 - 1900

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Frederic Edwin Church
  • View of Blackwell's Island, New York (Youle's Shot Tower, East River, New York; View of Hartford)
  • signed F.E. Church (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 11 by 15 1/2 inches
  • (27.9 by 39.4 cm)
  • Painted in 1850.

Provenance

(possibly) sold: American Art Union, New York, 1850, no. 193
(possibly) H.M. Page, Haverstraw, New York
(possibly) Charles Frost, 1873-4
(possibly) Walter Brown, 1877
M. Knoedler & Company, New York
Frederick B. Kenyon, La Jolla, California, by 1970
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Franklin Kelly et al., Frederic Edwin Church, Washington, D.C., 1989, pp. 158, 160, illustrated
John K. Howat, Frederic Church, New Haven, Connecticut and London, 2005, p. 13, illustrated fig. 13 (as View of Hartford)