American School, 19th Century

Pam Boynton, Townsend, Massachusetts sold at the Philadelphia Navy Pier Antiques Show, 2002.

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 29-31, fig. 57.

American Folk Art Museum, Made in NYC: The Business of Folk Art, March 11-July 28, 2019.

This painting depicting a view of Manhattan from the Promenade at the site of Fort Sterling, Brooklyn Heights, shows South Street Seaport circa 1836 and centers on Trinity Church in its second building iteration. This bucolic scene shows citizens in the foreground playing, relaxing, and gazing out at the East River at dusk with four boats: a paddlewheel ferry, a Staten Island skiff, an anchored ship with three masts, and a row boat with three people. Fort Sterling 60 years earlier was the site of a pivotal event in the American Revolutionary War, in which Marblehead fishermen saved George Washington's troops at night after the Battle of Brooklyn in August 1776. They rowed Washington and his 9,000 troops with equipment to escape from 20,000 British troops after the battle.