ARTIST: Lemuel D Eldred (Massachusetts, 1848 - 1921)
TITLE: Venice Cityscape
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Few minor paint losses. Some craquelure. Some scattered inpaintings. Wear to frame.
ART SIZE: 16 x 26 inches / 40 x 66 cm
FRAME SIZE: 20 x 30 inches / 50 x 76 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
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SKU#: 132516
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BIOGRAPHY:
Marine painter and etcher Lemuel D. Eldred was born and raised in Fairhaven, Massachusetts near New Bedford's whaling community. He studied for a short time at the Academie Julian in Paris (1880) and traveled throughout Europe (1883) but he claimed he was self-taught. He exhibited in Boston and at the National Academy in 1876. His work is represented in the Peabody Museum of Salem, MA, the Old Dartmouth Historical Society and the Kendall Whaling Museum.Little is known of Lemuel D. Eldred's life. His work typlifies the late Hudson River School painters' moral standards and natural views which were popular after 1825 until 1875.