Lot 435
John Williamson, A.N.A. (Scottish/American, 1826-1885), "A Valley in Autumn", oil on canvas, mid-19th c., signed on reverse of top stretcher bar "John Williamson A N A", 10 in. x 17 in., in a period coved giltwood frame. E1500-2500 Williamson exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1850, and was elected an Associate member in 1861. He also showed paintings in Washington as well as Boston, and his subjects are principally landscapes in Pennsylvania, New York, and New England. This early autumnal scene of a peaceful farmhouse and distant village, in its evocative tonal qualities and accomplished diagonal recession, strongly recalls the contemporary views of Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910), such as that painter's similarly composed "Autumn Landscape" of 1874-1876 (Anthony F. Janson, Whittredge, Cambridge, 1989, pl. 11). It may be that this untitled view will eventually be identifiable.
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