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Exhibition History“Hudson River School and Related Paintings,” Union College Art Gallery, Schenectady, NY, December 19, 1952 – January 30, 1953.
“J. E. Buttersworth, 19th-Century Marine Painter,” R. J. Schaefer Building, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT, June 1 – September 10, 1975, cat. no. 29.
BibliographyShaefer, Rudolph J., J. E. Buttersworth, 19th-Century Marine Painter (exh. cat. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport, 1975), cat. no. 29, ill.
Artist
James E. Buttersworth
(1817 - 1894)
Main Street, Sharon Springs
Datec. 1845
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 30 1/4 × 54 1/2 in. (76.8 × 138.4 cm)
Object numberN0355.1955
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextButtersworth, perhaps, is this country's preeminent marine artist and certainly one of the finest American painters of the sailing vessel. Born in the Isle of Wight in 1817 and commonly thought to be the son of the noted British marine painter, Thomas Buttersworth, he immigrated to the States sometime in the mid-1840s. His work was soon recognized by the prestigious lithographers, Currier and Ives, and some of his works inspired prints to wide acclaim. Sometime during the 1850s, Buttersworh moved to Hoboken, New Jersey with its view of New York Harbor. Throughout his life, ships and the temperal conditions in which these crafts moved were a constant muse.Exhibition History“Hudson River School and Related Paintings,” Union College Art Gallery, Schenectady, NY, December 19, 1952 – January 30, 1953.
“J. E. Buttersworth, 19th-Century Marine Painter,” R. J. Schaefer Building, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT, June 1 – September 10, 1975, cat. no. 29.
BibliographyShaefer, Rudolph J., J. E. Buttersworth, 19th-Century Marine Painter (exh. cat. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport, 1975), cat. no. 29, ill.
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