John Leslie Breck

George Whitfield Chadwick and Ida Mae Brooks Chadwick, Boston
By descent within the of the above (Sold: Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts, November 10, 2000, lot 195)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Boston, St. Botolph Club, Paintings by John Leslie Breck, 1890, no.5

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from scattered craquelure and stretcher bar marks along the left, right, and upper edges and along center vertical stretcher bar. UNDER UV: Inpainting along edges in the sky, at the building in the center left and a few dots in the sky.
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Breck visited Giverny in 1887 and was one of the first American artists to spend time there.  He developed close ties to Claude Monet and became an ardent exponent of the then avant-garde style of the French Impressionists.  On his return to his native Boston in 1890, his historic one-man show at St. Botolph's Club was among the first to introduce Impressionism to the American public.