19th Century Oil On Canvas Scottish Painter Painting William Hart Landscape

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19th Century Oil On Canvas Scottish Painter Painting William Hart Landscape :
$300.00

Here is a beautifully painted landscape - depicting mountains, river, cattle / cows and a farmer There is small blemish in the sky. The frame is newer 28 3/4\" x21\" (framed) It is signed lower right but very difficult to make out- it looks like the last name begins with HA - and when I searched for artists with these letters I found William Hart - this painting resembles his Mount Madison painting so much I was confident it was one of his works - please email me if you have any input.
Please email me any questionsThank youWilliam Hart (painter)
William McDougal HartWilliam Hart in c. 1858-1868
Born March 31, 1823
Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Died June 17, 1894 (aged 71)
Nationality American
Education Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Hudson River School
Known for Landscape art, Painting
William McDougal Hart (March 31, 1823 – June 17, 1894), was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter, and Hudson River School artist. His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, was also a Hudson River School artist, and the two painted similar subjects. He studied under Jules-Joseph Lefebvre.BiographyEditHart was born in Paisley, Scotland, and was taken to America in early youth by his family. He was apprenticed to a carriage painter at Albany, New York, and his first artistic experience was in decorating the panels of coaches with landscapes. He also spent time as a portrait painter. He returned to Scotland, probably in the early or mid-1840s, where he studied for three years.By the time he returned to America, Hart had shifted his energy to landscape painting. He exhibited his first work at the National Academy of Design in 1848, became a full member in 1858, and continued to show his paintings there regularly through the mid-1870s. He also exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association and at major exhibitions around the country. Hart was a member of the American Watercolor Society, and was its president from 1870 to 1873.
Mount Madison from the Androscoggin River
Like most of the major American landscape artists of the time, Hart settled in New York City, where he opened a studio in the Tenth Street Studio building in 1858. His mature landscape style embraced the mannerism of the late Hudson River School by emphasizing light and atmosphere. He became particularly adept at depicting angled sunlight and foreground shadow; the best examples of this are: Seashore Morning (1866) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; After the Storm (1860s) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Last Gleam (1865) in the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; Sunset in the Valley (1870) in a private collection, featured on pp. 82–83 of All That is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School by John Driscoll; and A Quiet Nook (1885) in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.As strong as Hart\'s technical abilities were, he is also known for his prolific and occasionally formulaic paintings of cows. Cattle were a popular motif in Hudson River School art, and nearly every artist included them in at least some of their landscapes as diminutive symbols of man\'s harmonious relationship with nature. Some artists, including William and James Hart along with Thomas Bigelow Craig, made a specialty of cow portraits. These paintings, which were very popular with late-19th-century American collectors, typically featured several cattle grazing or watering in the foreground or middle distance with the landscape playing a supporting role as a bucolic backdrop.The Albany Institute of History & Art has in its collection over 400 sketches, water colors, and sketch books which were retained en masse from the artist\'s studio after his death, by the family of the subsequent donor. Since each piece is signed, dated, and annoted with the location of its subject, many previously unsigned and unattributed paintings are now being associated with the artist. The museum is preparing an exhibition of this material.Hart died at Mount Vernon, New York, on June 17, 1894. His daughter Jessie Hart White was the mother of E. B. White.See alsoEdit

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