Mystic River Valley
by Edward Herbert Barnard (1855–1909)12¼ x 18⅛ inches
Signed lower left: EH Barnard
Information
Provenance
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
Private collection, Rhode Island
Private collection, Connecticut
A.J. Kollar Fine Art Paintings, Seattle, Washington, 1997
Private collection, Medina, Washington, 1997–2007
Private collection, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Related Work
Mystic Valley, oil on canvas, 17⅛ x 21¼ inches; Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut
Artist Biography
Born in Belmont, Massachusetts, Edward Herbert Barnard is known for his impressionist and representational landscapes. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then painting in the inaugural class at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. For a few years he worked for a stained glass manufacturer. In the mid-1880s, Barnard traveled to Paris and began studying at the Académie Julian with Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888) and Jules Lefebvre (1836–1911). Before leaving France in 1889, he saw an exhibit of paintings by Claude Monet (1840–1926) that inspired him to paint with outdoor light. He taught at Bradford College