19th C. AMERICAN LANDSCAPE J.B. SWORD #2
(Item: SWORD #2)
THIS AUCTION
19th CENTURY Landscape #2, Oil on Board, by James Brade Sword. An excellent mountainous village setting with horses pulling a wagon up a steep dirt road; probably rural Pennsylvania or New York State, circa 1880s. Oil on board is 20 1/2" by 13 3/4" and the excellent period (and probably original to painting) gilt frame is 28" by 21 1/2". Back is tidy with relatively new paper and hanger; original sticker was saved: Rosenbach Galleries; 1320 Walnut St.; Phila., Pa.; 337. Painting has no obvious repairs or inpainting and could, no doubt, be brightened with a professional cleaning. The below pictures were taken in sunlight and images show paintings brighter than they are in indoor light. Signed lower right, as pictured, "J. B. Sword". The other Sword painting has a stamped canvas board dated 1879 and there is no reason to think this painting has a different date. We fully guarantee this painting to be as noted.
Sword
was born in Philadelphia in 1839 and lived and painted in Pennsylvania
most of his life. He also painted in the Adirondack Mountains, Newport,
Rhode Island and on the Jersey shore. He was a popular painter of
portraits, landscapes, seascapes and genre. He died in 1915.
He was a professional painter and was a member of the Artists' Fund Society;
Philadelphia Society of Artists; and the Art Club of Philadelphia, of which
he was a founder. His works are in the collection of the University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and his 1911 portrait of J. W. Hones, Speaker
of the House, hangs in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Information
Credit: David Zellman, "Three Hundred Years of American Art."
James
Brade Sword is well listed and has had sales as high as the $28,000.00
range.
Will
pack properly and ship promptly.
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check our other auctions to see the other Oil on Board by Sword
...will
gladly keep the pair together and ship in one carton.
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~Oil on board is 20 1/2" x 13 3/4" and frame is 28" x 21 1/2"~
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