SOLD
Country of origin: United States
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed & dated lower left
Dated: 1926
Condition: Very good condition - a few tiny spots of retouching - relined c. 1960
Size: 36.00" x 42.00" (91.4cm x 106.7cm)
Framed size: 46.00" x 52.00" (116.8cm x 132.1cm)
Provenance: Hammer Galleries - New York
Galerie Charpentier - Paris
c. 1920
Oil on panel
$11,500.00
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Punta Rassa – Sailing boat off the coast
by Richard Hayley Lever
c. 1885
Oil on panel
$7,200.00
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Cockle pickers on the beach at sunset
by Marie Francois Firmin-Girard
1880
Oil on panel
$24,900.00
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Honfleur -l’embarquement des boeufs pour l’Angleterre
by Jean-Francois Raffaelli
Born 16 November 1865, in Grand Rapids; died 1936.
Painter, pastellist, draughtsman, illustrator. History painting, genre scenes, landscapes, mountainscapes, waterscapes, still-lifes.
William Samuel Horton trained at the Art Students League (ASL) and National Academy, New York; under J.P. Laurens in Paris and under Benjamin-Constant at the Académie Julian. He occupied Winterhalter's former studio in Paris. He travelled to Europe and took refuge in England in 1914, returning to the USA in 1919. He was awarded medals at several exhibitions in the French provinces. He was a member of the Société du Salon d'Automne.
At the age of 14 Horton drew Indian reservations for the North West Magazines
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