JOHN LA FARGE (1835-1910)

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY AND A GENTLEMAN

Details

JOHN LA FARGE (1835-1910)

Study of Evening Light, Fort Dumpling, Newport Harbor

oil on panel
9 x 11in. (22.8 x 27.9cm.)

Provenance

Sale: Boston, Leonard's Gallery, December 18-19, 1879
Edward William Hooper, Boston, Massachusetts
Mrs. Alice Mason, Boston, Massachusetts
Mrs. Edward (Isabella Weyman Hooper) Balfour, Balbirnie, Markinch, Scotland
Colonel William Balfour, Balbirnie, Markinch, Scotland
Alice Balfour, Balbirnie, Markinch, Scotland
by descent in the family to the present owners

Literature

RELATED LITERATURE
H. James, "A Landscape Painter", Atlantic Monthly, 18 Febraury, 1866

Exhibited

Boston, Leonard's Gallery, as "1868. Study of Evening Light. Fort Dumpling, Newport Harbor" 1879

Lot Essay

According to James Yarnall, Fort Dumpling, now little more than a ruined foundation, was located directly across from Brenton's Cove, Newport, on the island of Canonicut or Jamestown in Narragansett Bay. It was the site described in Henry James's 1866 short story, A Landscape Painter, in which the protagonist, presumably modelled on La Farge, travelled by boat to paint from nature.

This painting will be included in James Yarnall's and Mary A. LaFarge's catalogue raisonn©a of the artist's work.