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The Hudson River School in Focus: Property from the Friedman Collection

Francis Augustus Silva

White Island Light, Isles of Shoals

Lot Closed

January 20, 07:23 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Hudson River School in Focus: Property from the Friedman Collection

Francis Augustus Silva

1835 - 1886

White Island Light, Isles of Shoals


signed F. A. Silva. (lower left)

oil on canvas

20 ½ by 28 in.

52.1 by 71.1 cm.

Christie's, New York, 11 December 1981, lot 6 (titled Beacon Sale Light)

Private Collection, Atlanta

Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1988, lot 48A (consigned by the above; titled Seascape)

The Crane Collection, Wellesley, Massachusetts (acquired from the above)

Vose Galleries, Boston (acquired from the above in 1998)

Acquired from the above in June 1999 by the present owner

Boston, Vose Galleries, The Nineteenth Century: Rediscovering American Painters of New England and New York, May - July 1999, p. 29, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Francis A. Silva (1835-1886): In His Own Light, 2002, p. 144