Berkshires - Paintings

Rare American folk-art Memento Mori of Hiram Aluro Hill, died age 11, 1845. Good penmanship, watercolor and albumin glaze with borders intact. Foster brothers of Boston frame. This was purchased from...

Watercolor on paper, young boy in a dress by Patrick Wybrant, circa 1850s. Purportedly a child of a prominent Boston Family. Provenance: Property from the Collection of Maggie Cohen, New York City Overall: 8-1/2"h x 7-1/2"w Sight: 5-1/2"h x 4-1/2"w This item can be viewed in person at The Berkshire Galleries in Great Barrington Massachusetts. Patrick Wybrant was born in Rathdrum, County Wicklow in 1816. He painted in Great Britain from 1849 to 1852, spent approximately three years in the United States. During that time he painted watercolor portraits for prominent Massachusetts families. Wyrat returned to work in Yorkshire around 1855-1856. He may have continued to work until his death, in Knaresborough, West Riding...

John Wilson
English, 1774 – 1855

“Ships off the Coast”

Oil on canvas
12 ¼ by 20 in. W/frame 21 by 27 ¾ in.

Was a Marine Ar...

Small Venetian scene signed at the lower right corner. Watercolor: 5.75" x 4.75".

Adjustable Oak Artist Easel. Can be used as TV stand.

Bright and beautiful, fully painted original pop art. Acrylic on stretched linen. Very large and impressive. A full 3 feet by 6 feet tall in a custom metal frame. Not mixed media or ...

Born in Morristown, New York, Charles Chapman was a noted teacher, painter, and illustrator who was educated at Pratt Institute High School and in 1899 at William Merritt Chase's Art School in New York City. He also attended the Ogdensburg Free Academy and was highly influenced by the famed western artist Frederic Remington. Chapman was elected to the Council of the National Academy of Design in 1926. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club and won all its major prizes. As a member of the National Academy of Design his awards included the Saltus Gold Medal and the National Academy of Design, First Shaw Prize. His painting, "In The Deep Woods" is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He became an instructor at the Art Students League in New York and was also a book illustrator. With Harvey Dunn, he opened a school of illustration in Leonia, New Jersey. Chapman worked as an illustrator, but was best known for paintings of wilderness landscapes of the northern and western United States. Chapman painted the background for the mountain lion diorama in the American Museum's Hall of North American Mammals, which features the Grand Canyon. The subject shows many of the great qualities that William Merrit Chase instilled onto his students. Chase’s paintings in his 10th street studio in the late 1880’s were where some of his best paintings were completed. All major collectors of Chase are continuously seeking works of that period. Many of the women in Chase’s paintings of the 1880’s showed this great Western European fascination with Japanese culture as well as Chase’s love for decorative effect such works as Japanese in a Kimono, circa 1890 (Brooklyn Museum), of which the model wears the blue-gray kimono seen in “Woman in Kimono Holding a Japanese Fan”. This painting by Chapman...

Oil on canvas
24 by 36 in. W/frame 36 by 48 in.

Valenkamph lived in Gloucester, Ma. He was a member of Boston Art Club.