Oil painting with trees on the left, blue sky on the right, and river and figure fishing in the bottom right. Deepset painted gold wood frame with a beaded back outer edge. Ornate reliefed design sloping towards a simpler area, one layer is beaded.
oil paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
wood (plant material)
Painting
"J Appleton Brown" (Artists signature)
"Agents for the ARUNDEL SOCIETY / #17767" (Paper label with an image of a person's bust between two columns supporting a roof structure.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P126
FA148
Brown, John Appleton, 1844-1902 (Painter)
Probably Doll & Richards (Framer)
24 10/16 x 27 9/16 x 5 2/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.549
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