Lot 606
John Antrobus (English/American, 1831-1907, active New Orleans, 1859- 60), "A Flock of Turkeys in the Forest", oil on canvas, signed and dated "1889" lower left, 15 in. x 24 in., in a period giltwood frame. E18000-22000 Provenance: Private Collection, Montreal, Canada. Note: Upon his arrival from England in 1850, John Antrobus traveled extensively throughout the American South and West, as well as Mexico. In 1859, Antrobus opened a studio in New Orleans and ambitiously planned a twelve-part panorama of large paintings "representing Southern life and nature". The emotionally-charged "Plantation Burial" was painted in North Louisiana at the Carroll Plantation and is now in The Historic New Orleans Collection. Lot number 606 in this sale is similar in composition to "Plantation Burial" in that Antrobus selected the deep recesses of a heavily wooded forest as the setting. The primeval forest with the flock of wild turkeys could well be set in the artist's familiar terrain of Northern Louisiana. Ref: Poesch, Jessie, The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture & the Producers of Craftsmen, 1560-1860, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983 pp. 293-5.
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