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Lot 44: Amazing 19th Century Civil War Oil Painting by James Hope

Est: $5,000 USD - $20,000 USDSold:
Worthington GalleriesGallatin, TN, USOctober 21, 2017

Item Overview

Description

19th century oil painting by famed civil war painter James Hope (Vermont/New York 1818 – 1892) | Oil on Canvas | Painting depicts a panoramic view of a Union encampment on the Potomac River with tents, soldiers, flags, gun emplacements, etc. | Measures 43 x 14 inches (Image Only), 48 x 20 inches (with Antique Frame) | Painting is in good condition, has been relined, with some restoration. James Hope was born on November 29, 1818 in Drygrange, Roxboroughshire, Scotland. After moving to the United States, he became a noted portrait, landscape, and historical genre painter. After the death of his mother, he was brought to Canada by his father, who died of cholera about 1831. According to tradition James Hope was fifteen when he walked from the Canadian farm where he had spent his boyhood to Fairhaven, Vermont, to begin his five-year apprenticeship to a wagon-maker. With the money he saved, he was able to spend a year at Castleton Seminary. Apparently an accident to his ankle, which temporarily confined him to his home, gave him the leisure to try his hand at portraiture, and his first efforts were successful enough for him to set up as a professional artist at West Rutland in 1843. Hope married Julia M. Smith of West Rutland on September 20, 1841. Four of their children survived to adulthood: Henry F.; J. Douglass, who became a photographer; Jessie; and Addie, who married George A. Stearns and died in Argentina in 1871. From 1844 to 1846, he painted portraits in the more lucrative market of Montreal and then returned to Castleton, where he built a house in 1851 and supported his family by teaching painting and drawing at the Seminary. Landscape painting soon began to occupy all his spare moments, combining as it did his love for the country with his newfound talent. The catalogue of his paintings sold some years after his death mentions that at this period “two famous landscape artists- one great through color-power, the other through majesty of line, came into his life with most grateful results to him and them.” The first in this reference was Frederick Church, who in the summer of 1849 visited the spa at Clarendon Springs, Vermont, only a few miles from Castleton, and exhibited two Vermont scenes at the Academy the following year. It seems likely that he influenced Hope to focus his attentions on New York City, and may have exerted a strong influence on the Vermont painters career. In the early eighteen-fifties Hope abandoned teaching entirely and took a studio in New York, where he painted during the winter, returning to Castleton in the summer. Hope sent a Castleton landscape to the 1849 exhibition of the American Art Union, and by 1854 had work accepted by the National Academy of Design. Thereafter, for more than twenty-five years, he was a frequent contributor to the exhibitions there and at the Brooklyn Art Association. There are paintings of the Yosemite Valley by Hope, probably after Bierstadt sketches, and of Jerusalem, the sea of Galilee, and Joppa after photographs by Bierstadt (in this case presumably Edward Bierstadt, the photographer and brother of the painter). An occasional exhibitor in Boston, Hope also sent paintings to shows in Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Detroit, Utica, Chicago, and St. Louis. Hope was among the group of artists who saw active duty in the Civil War, participating in eleven battles. After the war he acquired popularity as a painter of battle scenes. He served in the Union army and sketched many battle scenes, which he later converted to large paintings that he exhibited throughout the country. One example is his work, In Search of General Sumner. After living much of his life in Vermont, he moved in 1872 to Watkins Glen, New York where he built a studio and art gallery. James Hope is known for landscape, portrait, and civil war related paintings. Hope was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design in 1871. Sources: George Groce and David Wallace, The New-York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, p. 325, Peter Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art, p. 1613

Dimensions

48" x 20"

Artist or Maker

Medium

oil on canvas

Date

19th Century

Condition Report

good condition, has been relined with some restoration

Payment & Shipping

Payment

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Shipping

Worthington Galleries provides in-house shipping at additional costs. We will separately invoice all winning bidders for packing, shipping, handling, and insurance costs. Please contact us to make shipping arrangements. If for whatever reason a winning bidder chooses not to use our in-house shipping, we will be happy to provide names of carriers and shippers. Should Purchaser choose to use a third-party shipper, Purchaser agrees that packing and shipping is done solely at the purchaser's risk and that the Purchaser will pay for all packing expenses, materials, carrier fees and insurance charges. Worthington Galleries will have no liability for any loss or damage to shipped items. Items must be paid for in full before they will be shipped. Any shipping estimates given are only estimates and cannot be construed as the final shipping cost. All property should be removed from the auction site premises at the auction's conclusion unless prior arrangements have been made with Worthington Galleries. Purchased items not picked up or shipped within ten business days of the auction will be assessed a storage fee of $10.00 per day. If the purchaser fails to have their item(s) removed from the Auction Site 30 days after the auction, Worthington Galleries reserves the right to take possession of the item(s) and dispose of them at their discretion to recoup storage costs.

Auction Details

Civil War & Militaria Spectacular

by
Worthington Galleries
October 21, 2017, 11:00 AM CST

112 Public Square, Gallatin, TN, 37066, US

Terms

Live bidding may start higher or lower

Buyer's Premium

$0 - 500:20.0%
$501+:23.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
$0$99$10
$100$499$25
$500$999$50
$1,000$2,999$100
$3,000$9,999$200
$10,000$19,999$500
$20,000$499,999$1,000
$500,000+$5,000

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5 minutes/bid

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Shipping

Worthington Galleries provides in-house shipping at additional costs. We will separately invoice all winning bidders for packing, shipping, handling, and insurance costs. Please contact us to make shipping arrangements. If for whatever reason a winning bidder chooses not to use our in-house shipping, we will be happy to provide names of carriers and shippers. Should Purchaser choose to use a third-party shipper, Purchaser agrees that packing and shipping is done solely at the purchaser's risk and that the Purchaser will pay for all packing expenses, materials, carrier fees and insurance charges. Worthington Galleries will have no liability for any loss or damage to shipped items. Items must be paid for in full before they will be shipped. Any shipping estimates given are only estimates and cannot be construed as the final shipping cost. All property should be removed from the auction site premises at the auction's conclusion unless prior arrangements have been made with Worthington Galleries. Purchased items not picked up or shipped within ten business days of the auction will be assessed a storage fee of $10.00 per day. If the purchaser fails to have their item(s) removed from the Auction Site 30 days after the auction, Worthington Galleries reserves the right to take possession of the item(s) and dispose of them at their discretion to recoup storage costs.