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Morning Fog, Mount Chocorua

D. Styles
Mid 19th Century

Signed lower left
Oil on Board
10 ¾” x 18 1/4”
17” x 25 ½” framed

We do not even know the artist’s first name; however, there was a D. Styles who was a New York painter specializing in portraits and landscapes who showed his work between 1848 and 1852 at the National Academy of Design.

This scene is of Mount Chocorua in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, from the shore of Lake Chocorua. Mount Chocorua, with an elevation of 3, 500 feet, is a favorite of White Mountain climbers.

Autumn Afternoon

Robert Burns Wilson
(1851-1916)

Signed lower right
Title on verso
Watercolor on Paper
7 3/4" x 19"

Robert Burns Wilson trained in Pittsburgh before moving to Louisville, and then Frankfort, Kentucky. He painted oil portraits around Frankfort for 30 years. As a painter, he is known today for his poetic watercolor landscapes of the Central Kentucky plateau.

Wilson was actually better known for his novels and poetry: he was the author of ³Remember the Maine," the battle cry of the Spanish Civil War. He moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1904, where he lived until his death.

Rocky Inlet

Attributed to
Philip Edward Chillman
(Born 1841)

Signed P.C. lower right in red

Oil on cardboard
15 3/4" x 20 5/8"
25 1/4" x 31 1/4" framed

Philip Chillman was born in Philadelphia and was influenced by the Romantic landscapist, Carl Weber, who also lived and worked in Philadelphia in the latter half of the 19th Century.

Louisiana Bayou 1927

Paul Fontaine Mersereau
(Born 1868)

Signed and inscribed 1927 on verso
13 1/5" x 16 12"
18 1/2" x 21 1/5" framed

Paul Mersereau was born in Dallas and spent the majority of his career in the South, although he studied art at the Académie Julien in Paris. Mersereau was influenced by the tonalist landscapes of George Inness.

Grove and Vista

Chauncey Ryder
(1868-1949)

Signed "Chauncey F. Ryder" lower right
Oil on Canvas
19 ¼" x 15 3/8"
24 ½" x 20 ½ " framed

Chauncey Ryder, like most of his fellow artists at the turn of the last century, studied painting in Paris, enrolling in the Academie Julien. After two years there he began exhibiting his work in the prestigious annual Salon were he showed regularly from 1903-1909. In 1907, he moved to New York after the prominent dealer, William Macbeth, began promoting his work.

Ryder is best known for the landscape paintings he recorded in his travels throughout New England and in the area surrounding his summer home in Wilton, N.H. He also painted at the Old Lyme, CN art colony in 1910 and 1911.

He style is unique, featuring his characteristic "Ryder green" and an economy of line. He was influenced, however, by both Tonalism and Impressionism and was quoted as saying, "I paint by feeling." (Ronald Pisano, American Art & Antiques, "Chauncey Foster Ryder: Peace and Plenty’, vol. 10, 1978, p. 78.)

He was appreciated in his own lifetime, "by collectors who were drawn to paintings that inspired a reflective state of mind and the unreal, between detail and vagueness." (Carol Lowery, Chauncey Ryder: The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism. Spanierman Galleries, 2005, p. 164.)

Over 50 museums have Ryder paintings in their collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He was an active member of the National Academy of Design, the Salamagundi Club, the Lotus Club and many professional organizations.

The painting is in excellent, unrelined condition and is housed in a period frame.

River Landscape

Attributed to
Mrs. Nellie Augusta Emery
(died 1934)
Late 19th or Early 20th Century

Oil on Board
Signed lower right
"N Medona Emery"
8 ¾” x 15 ¾”
12” x 19 ¼” framed

The name “N Medona Emery” on the lower right is the signature of Mrs. Nellie Augusta Emery who is recorded as having been in Dallas, Texas and in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she taught art from 1909-1913.

Nellie Emery studied painting in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under James Abbott McNeill Whistler, among others, and in this country with William Merritt Chase and John Enneking. Although her birth date is unknown, she is recorded as having died in 1934.

This small scale tranquil scene of trees lining a riverbank, with fields and a small cottage in the distance, is consistent with the late 19th century plein air practice of both the barbizon and the tonalist painters who influenced this American artist.

New England Landscape ca. 1910

Francis Stillwell Dixon

Signed and Estate Stamped on Verso
Oil on Canvas
24 ¼” x 25 3/8”
29 ½” x 34 ½” framed

Although he was born and died in New York City, Francis Dixon executed many of his impressionist and tonalist influenced landscapes in New England, California and Bermuda.

His professional training took place at the Art Students League in New York where he studied with Robert Henri. He also attended summer plein air classes with Charles Hawthorne on Cape Cod.

Dixon exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C. in 1916, and in New York at the Folson Galleries in 1917, The National Academy of Design in 1925 and the Babcock Galleries in 1926. From 1915-1917, he lived in Los Angeles.

He was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Allied Artists of America, and the Society of Independent Artists.

Dixon’s “ Leaning Tree”, painted in Point Lobos California, is in the collection of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut.

“New England Landscape” bears the “Estate of Francis S. Dixon” stamp on the reverse. “Dixon” is written in pencil on the stretcher.

The painting is in excellent, untouched condition. It is housed in a gilt Newton-Macklin frame.