EMILE F. BEAULIEU Painting NATIONAL ACADEMY NY Listed Artist HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL

Description: This painting by Emile Faure Beaulieu is a nice example of the type of antique American art I like. Nobody has cleaned or relined it. The artist has good sales records, so auction houses such as Eldred’s would accept this painting. Authenticity isn’t an issue. It’s a peopled landscape but also a seascape / coastal scene, so it’ll appeal to lovers of both. And, it’s of historical interest per the subject and the artist whose paintings are obviously good or else they wouldn’t be in museums or sold by galleries. Back in the early 1600’s, the Dutch settlers in New Netherland (today’s New York, parts of New England, etc.) built a lot of windmills. Probably the most famous place to see them is Long Island, particularly around The Hamptons. So, here we have a painting of a coastal landscape with windmill and woman walking with the waterfowl family. Nice subject, but probably the idea behind it is ‘coming out of the wilderness’. The Hudson River School painters liked to use devices such as buildings or ruins in the landscape to express the idea of civilization and the New World. The Hudson River School artist who painted this oil was born in 1828, in New York, and his name is Emile F. Beaulieu. It’s a 14 x 20, just like the one on The Cooley Gallery site (sold) and the one of boats for sale on Askart from another Connecticut gallery. Back in the 1850’s and 60’s, Beaulieu exhibited his paintings of New York Bay, the Palisades, etc., at the National Academy of Design (NAD), so they like him there and in fact have 3 of Beaulieu’s paintings in their museum collection. His work is in other American art museums too, if you want to check SIRIS, the Smithsonian database site. Beaulieu is a well-listed artist in the Who Was Who In American Art and other reference books. Even though this painting is around 160 years old, Beaulieu is considered ‘second generation’ Hudson River School because he wasn’t as old as Thomas Cole. He lived in Philadelphia in the early 1850’s where he exhibited at the PAFA and after that had a studio / lived in NYC from the mid-50’s to early 1860’s. Then, he went to France, met a woman, got married, they lived in the art hub of the world (Paris), and Beaulieu exhibited there in the big shows like the Paris Salon and in 1895 at the Exhibition of Bordeaux.

Price: 795 USD

Location: Pitman, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-08-20T19:55:33.000Z

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