Emily B. Waite Oil Painting on Canvas Grand Tour Painting
Item Details
An oil painting on canvas portrait, after a Dutch Old Master, by the well-listed American artist Emily Burling Waite (Massachusetts/Rhode Island; 1887 – 1980). Within dark tonalities, this painting depicts a bust portrait of a Dutch gentleman with long dark hair, mustache, and hat, situated against deep brown tonalities in the background. The work is unsigned by the artist and presented without glass, housed in a wood frame with carved leaf-like embellishments. This piece was painted by Emily Burling Waite while traveling in Europe on the Paige Traveling Scholarship from the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1910-12).
Emily B. Waite is best known for her oil portraits, still life paintings, and etchings. She began her formal artistic training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she studied from 1908 through 1910 under Philip Leslie Hale and Francis Luis Mora. In 1910 she received the Paige Traveling Scholarship and traveled extensively for two years throughout France, Spain, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Italy, studying and copying master paintings. Waite’s work is represented in the collections of numerous distinguished institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C.; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., among many others. This work was deaccessioned from the Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA. Proceeds from the sale of this item will go to benefit the museum.
Condition
- major craquelure and wear to painting; torn paper to canvas verso.
Dimensions
- measures in frame.
Item #
16BOS020-272
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