Frank Henry Shapleigh Alpine Village Oil Painting

Item Details

Frank Henry Shapleigh (American, 1842-1906)
Untitled (alpine village), 1869
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to lower left
Stencil from Frost & Adams, Boston to canvas verso

Frank Henry Shapleigh was a Boston raised painter who studied painting at the Lowell Institute of Drawing. He also studied in the studio of Emile Lambinet (1815-1877) after the Civil War. Known for his landscape paintings, he worked throughout New England as well as in California and Florida for a period of time. He was artist-in-residence at the Crawford House in New Hampshire and in the winter at the Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine.

Condition

- craquelure; accretions and darkening to surface; areas of possible inpainting; wear to frame including cracking and areas of loss.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 14.25" W x 9.5" H.

Item #

ITMG456976