Two Centuries: American Art
Two Centuries: American Art
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections
Alexander Helwig Wyant
Landscape
Lot Closed
October 6, 07:49 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections
Alexander Helwig Wyant
1836 - 1892
Landscape
signed A H Wyant (lower left)
oil on canvas
canvas: 20 by 27 ⅞ inches (50.8 by 70.8 cm)
framed: 33 by 41 inches (83.8 by 104.1 cm)
Painted circa 1885-92.
The present work is listed and illustrated as Ref. 132.024 on The Wyant Website as an authentic work by Alexander H. Wyant which can be accessed at www.alexanderwyant.org.
Bequest to the present owner from the above, 1915
The present work was originally owned by Charles A. Schieren (1842-1915), an established politician and banker in New York. Schieren immigrated from Germany in 1856 at the age of fourteen. He settled in Brooklyn and began working for his father’s cigar manufacturing business. Schieren became a prominent figure of the New York Republican Party, which culminated in his election as Mayor of Brooklyn in 1893. The present work was bequeathed to the Brooklyn Museum of Art upon Schieren’s death in 1915 after suffering from pneumonia.