Lot 270
Robert Hopkin (American, 1832-1909, active New Orleans c. 1883), "Mississippi River View with Paddlewheeler, probably Louisiana", c. 1883, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 12 in. x 18 in., in a period frame Note: Robert Hopkin was a native of Scotland who immigrated to the U.S. in 1843 and settled permanently in Detroit. In 1853 he opened his own studio. Traveling often, Hopkin decorated the interiors of passenger steamboats, churches and buildings in New Orleans, Denver and Detroit among other cities. One of his major accomplishments was the decorative interior of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange which comprised murals depicting the exploration of the Mississippi River . This project was prompted by the Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884, which commemorated the centennial of the first shipment of cotton from the U.S. to England and was held in New Orleans, at least in part to advertise the city's commercial revitalization following the end of the Reconstruction era. In the Mississippi River scene offered here, a cabin on the batture is depicted in the foreground while a paddlewheeler plies the the waters of the...
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