Large oil on canvas of lake scene with fishermen in boats by Wesley Elbridge Weber (1841-1914). Landscape and marine painter Wesley Webbr was born in Gardiner, Maine and died in Wollaston, Massachusetts in November 1914. He lived in Boston from 1870 to 1890 and lived in New York City from 1892 and was self-taught. He is considered one of the finer landscape painters who painted from life in the Conway area of New Hampshire and along the New England coast, and he is reminiscent of the Hudson River School in style and manner. Webber shared a Boston studio in Pemberton Square and then shared a Boston studio with marine painter William P. Stubbs (1876-) and kept other studios in New York City until his death. Every summer he went to Conway, New Hampshire to paint the hillside, where painters JOhn J. Enneking, Frank Shapleigh, and others joined him to paint. Two of his most famous paintings are "Kennebec River" and "Maine Boat Shop and Unidentified Vessels Ice-bound at Gloucester" (both at the Peabody Museum, Salem, MA). He is also represented int eh permanent collections of the Boston Athenaeum, New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, Portland Museum of Art (Maine), and elsewhere. Housed in original frame. 18" x 30".

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