Evening on the Schuylkill

Provenance

Alexander Gallery, New York

Manoogian Collection, Detroit, acquired from the above, 1983

Sale, Keno Auctions, New York, New York, May 1, 2020, lot 285

Sale, Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, October 29, 2015, lot 142

Alexander Gallery, New York, acquired from the above

Private collection, acquired from the above

Sale, Bonham’s, New York, New York, August 7, 2025, lot 301

Exhibited

The Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, West Virginia, The American Spirit: 19th-Century Masterpieces from the Masco Collection, July 22–October 16, 1994.

Related Works

On the Hudson, 1803-35, oil on canvas, 14 ¾ x 21 ½ inches, signed lower center: T. DOUGHTY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

A View of the Flat Rock on the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, 1827, oil on canvas, 28 x 40 inches, signed lower center: T. DOUGHTY 1827; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

View of the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, from the Opposite Side of the Schuylkill River, 1824-26, oil on canvas, 21 1/8 × 29 1/8 inches, signed lower center: T. DOUGHTY 1826; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Note

A self-taught artist, Doughty emerged by 1822 as a prolific contributor to the annual exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, presenting landscapes of the Schuylkill, Brandywine, Hudson, and Connecticut Rivers. In the latter half of the 1820s, he and fellow Philadelphia-based artist Thomas Cole both exhibited at the Academy, with Doughty being named an Academician in 1824. Widely recognized as the first American artist to devote his career entirely to landscape painting, Doughty played a pivotal role in establishing the genre of the Hudson River School.