ARTIST: Lawrence Saint (Pennsylvania, 1885 - 1961)
TITLE: Portrait of Woman
YEAR: 1952
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Faint scratch in lower left corner. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 24 x 18 inches / 60 x 45 cm
FRAME SIZE: 30 x 23 inches / 76 x 58 cm
SIGNATURE: unsigned
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Lawrence Saint was born in 1885 in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, just outside Pittsburgh. His father, Joseph A. Saint, was also an artist, who specialized in landscape painting and silhouette cutting. Although never formally trained nor immensely successful commercially, Joseph was a talented artist and continued to paint until he was 76 years old.In 1905, after a three-year apprenticeship, Saint entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to study portrait painting.Among Saint's works as a painter were detailed copies of portraits by a number of the Dutch Masters such as Jan Vermeer as well as original paintings of his own done in the style of masters such as Frans Hals. Saint was a serious student and scholar of the techniques of these 16th and 17th century masters, and to that end when creating works in their style instead of using commercial oil paints he made his own from scratch using the same materials, pigments, formulas, and manufacturing techniques developed by Dutch masters.