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"The Peaceful Harbor" by Frances Hopkinson Smith
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Watercolor and gouache signed and inscribed in the lower left featuring boats in a harbor by Frances Hopkinson Smith. Presented in a wonderful gilt frame.
Provenance:
Thomas McCLean, London
Christies, NYC
A private collection, NYC
Bradbury Art and Antiques, Maine
Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October 23, 1838, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from the Boys' Latin School of Maryland.
Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government, including the stone ice-breaker at Bridgeport, Connecticut, the jetties at the mouth of the Connecticut River, the foundation for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the Race Rock Lighthouse (southwest of Fishers Island, New York) and many life-saving stations. His vacations were spent sketching in the White Mountains, in Cuba and in Mexico. He also visited and sketched in Venice, Constantinople and the Netherlands.
He married Josephine Van Deventer on April 26, 1866.
His first popular book was Col. Carter of Cartersville (1891). His 1896 novel Tom Grogan and 1898 novel Caleb West were each the best selling book in the United States in the year of their release.
On March 1, 1915, Smith wrote the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California about his collection of fifteen original paintings being sent for a exhibition at the Club on June 8 to June 26, 1915. It was his first venture out West.
He died at his home in New York City on April 7, 1915.
- Dimensions:Height: 33.75 in (85.73 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
- Style:Victorian (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:Late 19th Century
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- Seller Location:Wiscasset, ME
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1017639663192
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