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FEBRUARY 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
William Holbrook Beard (American, 1824 – 1900), oil on canvas allegorical painting "The four seasons: Summer." Housed in a giltwood frame Note: William Holbrook Beard was a 19th-century American painter, specialized in animals, landscapes, portraits. Pupil of his older brother, John Henry Beard. William Beard worked as an itinerant portrait painter before joining his brother in New York in 1845 then establishing his own studio in Buffalo, NY in 1850. He traveled in Europe from 1856-58 before settling in New York City in 1860. Beard gained enormous success during the 1860s, when narrative, mythological, and fairytale paintings became treasured escapes from the cruel realities of the Civil War.
Dimensions: 16 x 24 in., (40.5 x 61 cm.)
Condition: Very good, no signes of restoration.
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