Lot 297
William Henry Buck (Norway/New Orleans, 1840-1888), "Grain Harvest, Lowlands", 1878, after Hugh Collins (British, fl. 1868-1892), oil on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed "after Collins" lower right with dimensions in ink and "Seebold" label en verso 30 in. x 42 in., in the original giltwood frame Provenance: Purchased from the artist, descended in the Airey family of New Orleans. According to the family, this painting was commissioned by Thomas Lyon Airey (1837-1894), a New Orleans cotton broker in the late 19th and early 20th c. Airey held several prominent positions in the cotton industry at both the local and the national level; he was a partner in the cotton firm of T.L. Airey & Co. and served as Vice-President of the Louisiana National Bank, twice as President of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, and as President of the National Cotton Exchange of America, among others. His son, Joseph A. Airey, Sr. (1872-1949) was also a New Orleans cotton broker and lived at 555 Audubon Street . Thomas L. Airey's daughter, Cecile (1868-1945), married John Milliken Parker (1863-1939), who served as the 37th Governor of Louisiana from 1920-1924.
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