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Raymond Dabb Yelland (1848-1900)

Near Dordrecht, Holland

Details

Raymond Dabb Yelland (1848-1900)
Near Dordrecht, Holland
signed 'R.D. Yelland' (lower left)--signed again, dated '1888' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 36 in. (61.3 x 91.4 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Winifred Yelland Phelps, daughter of the artist.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1935.

Lot Essay

Raymond Dabb Yelland was a student and later an instructor at the National Academy of Design in New York and taught at Mills College in Oakland, California. Between 1877 and 1888 he studied in England and France and the present work was painted on a trip to Holland during his final year in Europe. A work of exceptional quality and rarity, Near Dordrecht, Holland reveals the artist's skill at capturing the atmosphere of a classic Dutch landscape in the rich tradition of American Luminist and Hudson River School painters.