Charles Winfield Tice (1810-1870), or a follower, "General Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, New York", 1858, oil on artist's board, inscribed and dated in pencil en verso, "Washington's Headqu...[loss/ 1858/ Tice...[loss", 10 1/8 in. x 12 1/4 in., in a period giltwood frame with ornamented oval gilt mat. E1500-2500 Note: The Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site preserves an almost exact replica of this painting (at the considerably smaller size of 4 « in. x 7 in.), that was executed by Cicero A. Gardner (born Newburgh, NY-died there 1875), an amateur painter who was an occasional student of Charles Winfield Tice. Tice was a well-known Newburgh artist, who exhibited at the National Academy between 1837 and 1849; his studio and classroom was barely a block away from the vantage-point of the view depicted here. This work, though it bears Tice's name in an inscription that is certainly contemporaneous, may therefore be a parallel painting by another local student of his, who inscribed his teacher's name rather than his or her own; or it may possibly be a simply-composed prototype by the master himself, intended for emulation by his students. General George Washington rented the farmhouse depicted, from Tryntje Hasbrouck (widow of Jonathan Hasbrouck, who built it in 1750 and extended it in 1770), from April 1782 to August 1783. It was dedicated as a public monument on July 4, 1850, and is recognized as America's first "historic house museum." Reference: Dorothy Barck, "Washington's Newburgh Headquarters," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 14:2 (May 1955), pp. 30-32. We are grateful to Melvin Johnson, Historic Site Assistant New York State, for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.