SOLD Late Summer Sunday Picnic
by George Henry Smillie (1840–1921)12 x 20 inches
Signed and dated indistinctly lower left: Geo. H. Smillie.
Provenance
Private collection, Maryland
Estate of above, Maryland
Sale, Sloans & Kenyon, Friendship Heights, Maryland, April 20, 2022, lot 338, from above
Private collection, New York, New York
Related Works
Landscape, 1870, oil on canvas, 22⅛ x 36⅛ inches; David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
East Hampton Meadows, 1883, oil on canvas, 15 x 23¾ inches; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Artist Biography
Born into an artistic family, George Smillie became a well-known landscape painter at the end of the nineteenth century. Raised in New York City, George first trained as an engraver under his father, James H. Smillie. He went on to study painting with James McDougal Hart, a leading member of the Hudson River School (and part of his own artistic dynasty). Smillie began exhibiting at the National Academy of Design at the age of twenty-two and became known for his polished, realistic landscapes. He made frequent painting trips to the Adirondack Mountains and the White Mountains; rode through the West
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