Lot 329
Edmund Darch Lewis (American, 1835-1910), "Distant View of a Farm with a 'Salt-Box' House", watercolor on professional paper, signed and dated "1860" lower left, 12 1/2 in. x 19 7/8 in., handsomely matted and framed. E1000-2000 Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York label en verso (erroneously identifying the scene as a possible view of Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh-on-Hudson, apparently only because of the image's inclusion of a flagstaff). Note: This beautiful early watercolor by the fashionable Philadelphia socialite and artist E. D. Lewis was probably made in New England, where he exhibited about this time at the Boston Athenaeum; its pair of figures prominently included in the left middle ground, suggests that this may well have been a commissioned view of a newly-built country seat. As something of a prodigy, Lewis first showed his work publicly at age 19, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1854. He at once became the darling of rich collectors, and even after converting a pair of large Philadelphia row houses into a lavishly stocked private gallery, his worth at the time of his death was said to have exceeded $300,000-a sum accrued entirely through the astute sale of his landscapes.
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