Lot 895
After Henry Mosler (American, 1841-1920), "The Lost Cause", oil on canvas, unsigned, 22.25in. x 28.25in., in an antique giltwood frame. E4000-6000 Note: Born into a family of Jewish immigrants in New York City, Henry Mosler became well recognized for his work as newspaper illustrator and painter of portraits and sentimental genre scenes. As a child, his family moved to Cincinnati and then to Nashville. Mosler's natural abilities at drawing were encouraged by his family. Initially he studied art in Cincinnati with James Beard and later in Paris and Dusseldorf. During the Civil War, Mosley worked as an Illustrator for Harper's Weekly Newspaper. As an art correspondent he traveled with General R. W Johnson's Union Army command in the west and experienced the war effort first hand. Upon returning to Cincinnati in 1886, Mosler earned national acclaim for his painting of "The Lost Cause". The sentimental painting depicted the forlorn Confederate soldier as he returns to the defeated and devastated South Almost immediately after the Civil War, Southerners began to memorialize the failed cause in paintings, prints and memorials honoring the Confederate soldiers who fought valiantly. Several copies of the popular Mosler painting were made, one of which is in the collection of the Morris Museum of Southern Art. Reference: Bruce W. Chambers, Art and Artists of the South: The Robert P. Coggins Collection, University of South Carolina Press, 1984, 36.
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