UNLOADING BARGES ON THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE

Details

WILLIAM SAMUEL HORTON (1865 - 1936)
UNLOADING BARGES ON THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE
stamped with artist's monogram (lower right)
gouache
7½ x 9½ in. (19 x 24 cm.)

Provenance

Miss Lottie Horton.

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Lot Essay

After training under Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens, William Samuel Horton lived and worked mainly in Paris, occupying the former workshop of Winterhalter. In 1914, he moved to England and then returned to his home country of the United States at the end of the Great War. He was an Impressionist landscape painter and was friendly with both Monet and Degas, amongst others.

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