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James Augustus Suydam

On the Beach, Newport (Spouting Rock Beach)

signed J.A. Suydam and dated 1864 (lower right)

oil on canvas

18 ⅛ by 30 in.

46 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1864.

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James Augustus Suydam
On the Beach, Newport (Spouting Rock Beach)

signed J.A. Suydam and dated 1864 (lower right)

oil on canvas

18 ⅛ by 30 in.

46 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1864.

Provenance

Vernon Collection (acquired in 1865) 

Marshall O. Roberts, New York (acquired in 1867) 

John Burrows, New York 

Washburn Gallery, New York 

Wolf Family, New York (acquired from the above on 6 July 1978) 

Sotheby’s, New York, 20 April 2023, lot 533 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibition

New York, Metropolitan Sanitary Fair, 1864, no. 278, p. 16

New York, Washburn Gallery, Country Places, 1977, no. 7

New York, National Academy Museum; Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art; Glen Falls, The Hyde Collection and Savannah, Telfair Museum of Art, Luminist Horizons: The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam, 2006, no. 1864.2, fig. 3.23, p. 89; pp. 90 and 155, illustrated in color

Literature

John I.H. Baur, "A Tonal Realist: James Suydam," The Art Quarterly, 1950, p. 226

The Magazine Antiques, vol. CXIII, no. 6, June 1978, p. 1195, illustrated