Edmund Darch Lewis 19th Century New Port Yacht Race Sailboats Watercolor & Gouache Seascape Painting Period Frame Signed and Dated 1880 1 of 2 in Sale
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Edmund Darch Lewis 19th Century New Port Yacht Race Sailboats Watercolor & Gouache Seascape Painting Period Frame Signed and Dated 1880 1 of 2 in Sale
Lewis, Edmund Darch (1835 - 1910), considered one of the most prolific and commercially successful American landscape painters of the late nineteenth century known for landscape and coastal marine painting in the Styles of the luminous Hudson River School realism, naturalist representation. Studied under Paul Weber.
Watercolor and gouache on paperboard (with beveled gilt edge) 7 by 15 1/8, depicting a yacht race off the coast of New Port, Rhode Island, signed and dated lower right with title verso to painting: Edmund D. Lewis 1880 (LR), district NW of Newport RI Yacht Race.
Period wide 4 1/8 panel gilt frame with ebonized inner liner 14 7/8 by 23 by 3/4".
These are exceptionally beautiful Lewiss fresh from a local estate!
Provenance: Florida gulf Coast Estate.
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked:
Adirondack Mountains
Catskill Mountains, New York
Cuba
Hudson River Valley, New York
Lake George, New York
Monterey, Carmel California
New England
West Virginia Before 1920
White Mountains, New Hampshire
Exhibited:
Boston Art Club
Boston Athenaeum
Brooklyn Art Association
National Academy of Design-
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Paperboard has toned commensurate with age with some light foxing. Paperboard edge is beveled and gilded. Frame very good with moderate edge wear with noted separation to mitered inner ebonized liner.
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| Estimate | $2,000 - $3,000 |
| Starting Bid | $1,500 |
