Lot 508
Edmund Reuel Smith (American, 1829-1911), 'Tropical Landscape', oil on canvas, signed and dated '1886' lower mid right, 26 in. x 40 in., in a period gilt frame. E1500-2500 Provenance: Private Collection, San Francisco. Registered with the Art Inventory Catalogue, Smithsonian American Art Museum, SIRIS, 1985, on line date base. Note As an expedition artist for the U.S. Navy, Edmund Reuel Smith was sent to Chile to work with Lieutenant James Gilliss on the United States Astronomical Expedition of the Southern Hemisphere. Smith immersed himself in the history and culture, and lived from 1849 to 1852 in Santiago where he collected natural history specimens of the region After retiring as expedition artist, he returned to Chile to study the indigenous peoples and wrote and illustrated the book The Araucanians; or, Notes of a Tour Among the Indian Tribes of Southern Chile. This painting depicted the lush tropical topography of Chile with Acaucanian Indians crossing the river by boat and their hut built near the shore.
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