Half Century Collection
Lot 305:
Description
Keywords: Maritime Art, American School, Turn of the Century, Impressionist Influence, Seascape Scene, Oil on Artist Palette, Late 19th to Early 20th Century
Warren Sheppard, Signed "Sunset Seascape". Oil painted on the back of Warren Sheepard’s actual palette board, Oil Painting. Signed Lower Right.
Artist Bio: Warren Sheppard was an American marine painter born in Greenwich, New Jersey, on April 10,1858. He lived most of his life in New York, New Jersey, spending summers in New Hampshire, painting seascapes off the Isles of Shoals. He learned the art of marine painting under the Dutch Maritime artist Mauritz Frederick Hendrick de Haas, who had moved to America, settling in New York in 1858, the same year that Sheppard was born. Although he worked closely with the master, Sheppard developed an original style and maintained his views on the portrayal of nature.
In the 1890s, Sheppard painted a group of Venetian scenes. Recording the architecture along the Grand Canal, Sheppard painted many private villas, betraying the oriental influences on the architecture of this unusual city’s original plans.
From 1880 to 1899, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design, where he showed many paintings, among them Moonrise on the Ocean, which commanded $1,500 in 1896.
Sheppard was not only a talented marine painter but also a racing yacht designer and navigator.
He died on February 23, 1937.
Measurement: 15 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (38.7 x 48.9 cm.)
ID: 10
Condition: Overall Good Condition. Wear commensurate with age. A few cracks running across horizontally. Please see photos
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