View of New Brighton, Pennsylvania

This scene depicts the town of New Brighton, Pennsylvania and the Beaver River with the Allegheny Mountains in the background and the Alum Rocks in the foreground. The artist, O. Osborne, has not been identified but may be, or may be related to, either J. O. Osborne, a landscape and portrait painter working in Ohio in the mid-19th century or Milo Osborne, an engraver and townscape artist who worked in the Philadelphia area between 1849 and 1860 (George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860 (New Haven, 1957), p. 479).